“At that moment, I thought: Just because I’m attractive, you think I’m dumb or something?”

“I think one of the biggest things that always feels the heaviest is that we all feel so disconnected.”

“It’s kind of an interesting story because my home for a very long time was prison.”

“I thought I’d never actually get a chance to be a father, and have someone say their name, my name, but with a Jr. - and be proud of it.”

“A lot of people don’t travel, don’t go places, but you can mentally go…with a story.”

“That’s one of the things in life I didn’t think I’d be able to do, but I did- I raised her.”

“I was telling her it was my first job, and she said, ‘Oh, I’m gonna hook you up!’ And she bought $10,000 worth of clothes.”

“We just grew a bond for, like, 10 years now. It just keeps getting better. I love them. They’re my bros.”

From our pop-up story shop at the Boston Unity Cup.

“I’m not one of those people who posts a lot on social media, so just to have people see me uncut, unfiltered and raw- it was kind of a self-love thing.”

“That’s the one thing about me: I never turn down a dare. And I so I thought: You know what? I’m shy. This is a way for me to get out of my shell.”

“So there’s a picture of me in an alley in Pisa, in Italy, and I’ve got my head back and I’m smoking a cigarette and I just look really happy. And I really, really was.”

“About 15 years ago, I decided to take my sons on a guys’ trip. It was ‘see as much of the country as we possibly can in the week that we have.’”