Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

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S. Representative from Massachusetts's 5th congressional district (1975–1979) and held local political office. He previously served as a U.