A ‘wagon’ of shame followed her. Now, she’s graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Tessa Domingus found purpose on the back deck of a Lincoln rehabilitation home, conversing with a man who didn’t want to spend his next paycheck on alcohol.

Sunlight shone through the leaves of a large tree in the backyard as they talked. It was the sort of day where, just a few years earlier, Domingus would have been out searching for a house party, a chance to use.

But on this warm, sunny day, she spent it volunteering with the nonprofit she herself had turned to following 10 months in prison…

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