Every Good Boy Does Fine
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“Well, what are we going to do?” I asked.
He looked away. “I don’t know what I’m going to do. I just know I can’t live like this anymore. I don’t think anything is ever going to change. Year in and year out, things just never get better. I just can’t take it anymore. I’ve tried so hard for us to stay together, hoping that you would change, but things just get worse. I tried getting a separation so I could at least get on welfare. I know that someday you will change. That’s what keeps me going. You’re a good man, Miguel, but you’re weak. I don’t know what makes a person have to use drugs, but it doesn’t affect just you. Just look at the way we have to live. We don’t have anything left. Even our old friends don’t come around to visit. You have to do something, or I’m just going to go crazy.”
She could not hold back the tears from her eyes.
Just then, Mikey came into the room, and she sent him for a tissue. I got up from where I was sitting and sat next to her. I put my arms around her, and she buried her head in my chest. Her sobs were heavy, and she could not talk. By then the boys had come into the room to see why their mommy was crying. Stevie climbed up on her lap and put his arms around her. I reached out for Mikey and Robert. We were all huddled on the couch, crying together. No one said a word. No yelling, no accusations. No one was blaming me. It was a time to fight back.
“This disease is not going to destroy us”, I vowed. “We’ll fight this until we beat it.”
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This is a man’s journey through addiction and his quest for recovery. It is a story of hope, faith and strength that will lead one man from the pits of despair to the heights of recovery, and through that process find himself and his calling: to help others find their way.
About the Author
Bobby Miguel was born in New York City during the middle of the Depression. The second of four children born to hard working Puerto Rican parents, he learned early on that life was a struggle. Moving to the Bronx during World War II, he learned to survive in the streets, got involved with gangs, which landed him in prison. He marries his high school sweetheart at an early age, but trouble was soon to follow. He becomes addicted to drugs and begins a cycle of addiction, incarceration, and attempts at rehabilitation. Later, through the influence of a Christian leader he enters a rehabilitation farm in Upstate New York. This is when his recovery truly begins and when the seed is planted, that will lead him to New Haven and his mission to help others afflicted by addiction. Assisted by other ex-addicts and the support of the spiritual and secular communities, he begins to lay the foundation for the first Hispanic treatment program for men in Connecticut. Crossroads, Inc. opened its doors in 1973 and continues giving hope to men and women desperately seeking treatment. Bobby Miguel is an example that change is possible, and every good boy does fine. Now retired, Crossroads still carries on his vision of recovery and now serves a multicultural population. Bobby Miguel continues giving back, and shares his story so that others will be inspired to change and not give up.