Best Kept Secret Page #3

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he's really

the best of all.

He's a blessing to us.

Right, Erik?

Yes, Dad.

See, I can always get a "yes"

out of him, so that's good.

ALYCE:
Yeah, when he first

came here,

he was very...

I guess, shy.

This is the first time he's

been in a program like this

because he came

from his mother's home.

So he was kind of shy.

He would not interact

much with us.

He would stay in his room

mostly, you know.

In the book, it said that

he was living with his mother

and brother.

And that his mother was ill

and unable to take care of him.

I think she was concerned

with her son

and wanted to make sure that he

was being taken care of

because she couldn't.

I commend her for that.

But he does have visits

with his mother once a week.

Which he enjoys.

He looks forward to that.

-Tremendously.

-Right.

ALYCE:
As far as him living

on his own,

I don't know.

During school,

he has job training.

Like they have a job cleaning

the church pews,

that kind of stuff.

Okay. When you finish that,

come back up, Robert.

Matthew.

Keep working, please.

Thank you.

Come on.

You can do it.

You touched it yesterday.

Come on.

You can do it.

You went through the other one.

Right.

Are you going

to walk through this?

-Yeah.

-Okay.

Good.

Yay! Yay!

Very good!

Yay!

Excellent!

You did it!

Very good, very good.

Now, look...

Look at Ms. Mino.

Very good.

Somebody has to hire you

after graduation.

If you lose your ticket,

what's happening?

You walk.

That was what

was holding him up,

but she's been in constant

contact with him.

This is Janet Mino.

She's a teacher at our school.

She was Tesean's teacher.

-Ohh!

-Is he here?

-He's here.

-Yeah, he's upstairs.

Oh, I would love to see him.

You want to start downstairs?

-That's fine.

-Okay.

This way, please.

That's our

arts and crafts area.

Marlene, maybe you can...

We make this

with the consumers.

Wherever we sell,

we pay.

Okay, this way.

-Thank you very much.

-Thank you, Marlene.

One more floor.

A computer room?

No, this is our production room.

Where we do subcontract work,

sorting cable wires

for Cable Vision.

WOMAN:
Some of the people

are doing data

and some of them wires.

We just finished with the paint.

The paint is outside.

-Right.

-And we also do

mulch work.

Mm-hmm.

Okay, thanks.

[Laughter]

Hi!

[Laughter]

Tesean, show them your world.

Tesean, give me a hug!

Stand up.

Give me a hug!

Yoga stand. Up.

Bring your feet up.

Yeaaaah!

[Laughter]

[Chuckling]

I told you he would

remember you.

At first he was like,

"What are you doing here?"

[Chuckles]

I remember you.

You do that nicely.

Ooh-ooh!

Thank you.

It's so good to see you.

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