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It is now spring back[br]in Paintsville Kentucky,

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and that football superstar[br]Shawn Grim has climbed

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a giant mountain all his own.

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Shawn Grim!

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Beating the odds, Shawn Grim[br]becomes the first person

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in his family ever to get[br]a high school diploma.

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Shawn is on his way up and[br]out, because Pikeville College,

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about an hour from[br]his home, has awarded

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him a football scholarship.

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He gets that surgery[br]on his damaged knee,

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complete with tempting[br]prescription painkillers

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with his mother Tina.

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OK.

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It'd be $150 for these 30.

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If I wanted to sell, I[br]could get rid of it today.

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But my son is more[br]important than $1.

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As we said, it's a big[br]achievement for Shawn

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to go to college.

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His stepbrother, Little[br]Man, dropped out of school

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and has two kids.

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[MUSIC PLAYING - "LOLLIPOP"]

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Listen.

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We were in Little Man's[br]trailer when Shawn played me

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that ringtone again.

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Can I see the dance[br]you do to "Lollipop"?

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I don't know the dance.

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I bet you do.

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Seriously, I don't.

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Sorry.

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I know the song.

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But just as Shawn is[br]getting close to going off

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to his new life, a new blow.

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Little Man's girlfriend,[br]the mother of his children,

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says at 3:00 AM she found Little[br]Man and his 15-year-old half

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sister out in back of[br]the trailer having sex.

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Shawn's mother Tina[br]called the cops.

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Knowing they're blood-related,[br]and knowing that that happened,

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that is really[br]disgusting in my book.

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Shawn's stepdad Rick says[br]if Little Man comes around,

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he's ready.

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I'd blow his head off his body.

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I'd shoot my own mother.

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The parents are[br]heading out to see

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their daughter, who's been taken[br]to a social services facility.

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Later, Tina tells us she too[br]was molested by a family member

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when she was young.

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Rick says this kind of[br]thing doesn't just happen

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in Appalachia, it's everywhere.

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Well, did you ever hear the[br]old saying, the closer the kin,

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the deeper in?

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It doesn't matter who it is.

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They lay down.

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Black, white, crippled,[br]it don't matter.

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In tears, Shawn's half[br]sister tells their mother

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that little man gave her[br]pills or marijuana or money

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in exchange for sex,[br]and back home says

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that wasn't the first time.

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It happens all so[br]fast, you really

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don't know what's[br]going on around you.

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You just go on all[br]through the days,

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pretending like[br]nothing's ever happened

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because you're so scared.

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Little Man says[br]he is not guilty.

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The mother of his children[br]has now recanted her story.

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Well, unfortunately,[br]Eastern Kentucky

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has a stereotype of incest,[br]but it's everywhere.

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It's in the whole United States.

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And we have to be able[br]to make sure and get out

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that this cycle[br]has to be broken.

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For Shawn, anger[br]and embarrassment.

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In the wake of all this, he[br]goes off to Pikeville College

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to begin his new life, trying[br]to upend all those stereotypes.

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Us hillbillies don't[br]want to do nothing

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but drink and do drugs[br]the rest of their life?

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Is that what you're saying?

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Stereotype.

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Arriving at school,[br]it's clear he

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doesn't have the advantages[br]a lot of the other kids have.

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What's your story?

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I ain't got a lot of money and--

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You ain't got a lot of money?

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No.

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What'd you live in back home?

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A house.

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I slept wherever I fell asleep.

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Hut!

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For eight weeks, he goes[br]to football practice,

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where his teammates[br]are now twice his size.

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He also struggles[br]in the classroom,

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says he's feeling overwhelmed.

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And by the way, his[br]girlfriend from the right side

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of the tracks has long[br]since broken up with him.

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Failing is probably I guess the[br]biggest thing to ever scare me.

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But I guess I'm just going to[br]work harder and try harder.

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Even with the[br]scholarship, he says

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he has no money for what[br]other kids can afford--

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supplies, food, fun.

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After only eight[br]weeks, he loses heart.

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He drops out and goes back home.

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Found out I couldn't[br]pay for the college.

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Had to come home.

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No one's perfect.

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Winter is coming.

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The family needs coal,[br]so Shawn heads out

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for one of those illegal[br]scavenging trips on the highway

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wall on Route 23.

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And all the people[br]whizzing by have no idea

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that the kid digging coal[br]on the side of the road

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was once the hope and hero[br]of Appalachian football,

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now on the side of the highway,[br]with nothing around the bend.

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