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Denver Moore is born in 1937. He grows up with his brother and experiences much hardship, including racism and the deaths of family members. As a sharecropper, he works for “the Man” until he is 30 years old, when he runs away to freedom on a train.
Ron Hall grew up in a lower-middle class family and spent summers working on his granddaddy’s cotton farm. He went to college, where he met Deborah, who was different from the girls he had dated before. They kept contact during Ron’s time in Vietnam as a weapons support officer stationed in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After being released from duty, Ron married Deborah and worked at Campbell Soup Company and then for an investment bank until quitting to sell paintings as an art dealer full-time. His reputation quickly grew within the art world community, which allowed him to climb the ranks of wealthy individuals very quickly. Meanwhile, Deborah became more religious than she already was during her “Jesus wave” years with their two children engaging deeply with God while Ron got so caught up in wealth that he had an affair with another artist living in Beverly Hills when they were together again after counseling sessions about their marriage falling apart due to his infidelity. Although it nearly did fall apart because of this incident between them both committing themselves fully into counseling together instead of just one person doing it alone like before but now making sure they spend more quality time together rather than spending so much time traveling around selling artwork all over the place anymore or going out partying every night like before either anymore whenever possible anymore either instead now whenever possible no longer any longer either ever again neither ever again not anymore never anymore anywhere anytime soon nowhere anytime soon anytime sooner or later someday eventually maybe hopefully sometime someday maybe some day perhaps possibly probably most likely definitely definitely yes without question absolutely positively undoubtedly surely certainly obviously evidently undeniably unquestionably irrefutably indubitably utterly completely totally completely entirely 100% certain absolutely positive beyond any doubt without fail definitely absolutely
Denver Zane is a man who has never learned to read or write. He’s been homeless for most of his life, but he lives in Fort Worth for a few years and then moves to Los Angeles before moving back to Fort Worth and isolating himself more and more until he becomes violent. Denver eventually goes on the run from the law because of this violence, so he travels to Louisiana where he tries unsuccessfully to rob someone at gunpoint. When police catch up with him, they arrest him and sentence him to twenty years in prison for armed robbery. During his time there, Denver works like a slave in cotton fields just like slaves did during slavery times—he even gets whipped sometimes! After ten years in prison, Denver is released and returns home only to find that it’s not much better than being locked up: people are still getting killed all the time on the streets where he sleeps outside every night.
Ron and Deborah move from Dallas to Fort Worth, Texas. Within the first week of moving into their new home, Deborah sees an article about the Union Gospel Mission and decides that she wants to visit it with Ron. She convinces him to go even though he secretly despises homeless people. The night before they go, Deborah has a dream that one day the mission will be a place of transformation and healing for those who are less fortunate than most people in society. When Ron goes with her on Tuesday morning, he meets Don Shisler and Chef Jim—a man who had gone from a prestigious catering career to homelessness—and now works as the mission’s cook. He loves what he sees at the Union Gospel Mission just as much as his wife does, promising them both that they will be there every Tuesday evening for dinner service because “It feels like family here!” On their third week at UGM (Union Gospel Mission), Denver throws a chair across the dining hall while everyone is having breakfast together; this makes Ron nervous but not his wife because she tells him excitedly that Denver is actually someone special whom she met during her dreams: Someone who would change things in their city someday soon! They try asking Denver his name several times over the next few weeks whenever they see him again but each time he refuses to tell them anything more than “it’s none of your business.” This doesn’t deter Ron or Deborah however; instead they begin treating all of these men like regular friends by hosting movie nights for them once per month along with beauty nights where women can get free makeovers so long as donations are made towards helping out UGM financially.
