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Steve Gonyea

Oct 10, 2026

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disabilities.
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And they certainly can't touch the guitars.
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They can come to our barn and they can beat on those drums all day long.
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I don't care if they break the guitar string because we have a dozen other ones that they can use.
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right behind it um we don't care and um we have we actually have xbox in there on one of the walls a big one it's it's never used because the kids go in and they're doing all the sensory stuff upstairs that we have all kind of board games and um interacting it's got a snack bar in there a soda bar slash beverage bar and it's pretty darn cool and it's worked out well i built it for my son and his friends and his friends started coming and they thought it was cool and then it started getting out in the community and people in the community were coming asking if they could come over and then my son winds up being the cool kid The one that never got invited to any of the birthday parties and any of the other events.
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He winds up being the cool kid and everybody wants to come here.
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And somebody tipped off Spectrum News.
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Where
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Thank you.
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They want you to cut it right there.
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And the problem with that is these kids need to know that they have a sense of belonging somewhere.
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And they have enough loss in their life, off their parents, their families, their neighborhoods.
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And they get bounced around all over the place.
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And there's no connections.
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that's it I was gonna ask did you ever end up adopting some of these kids the last three
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and and the reason Cindy is because they they've been on the register for a long time for adoption and nobody's touched them with her once profoundly autistic he's most families would never touch him somebody looked at him once and said no way it's too much And the other two had a lot of trauma.

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