The 8-year-old boy across the street stormed in and out of his own house very often. A neighbor, William Dunn,1 what was going on in his life, So Dunn asked him.
"He told me that he didn't have a2 , " says Dunn, now 58, "and I realized there was3 I could do for him. " That something was4 , a passion Dunn's father had shared with him.
Dunn has taken groups of kids out almost every5 to fish. Most didn't have father figures in their lives and had never fished. "They'd been through a lot, and their lives were6 ," Dunn says. "But when they were fishing, all of that7 . Out on the boat, they'd be smiling, and even8 ."
Jayden, now 13, has become a devoted fisherman and9 Dunn with helping him mature. "I hope he knows I mean it when I say thank you, " he says.
Just as10 as the fishing are the11 Dunn forms with the kids. "When Jayden was going through a12 period recently in study—I let Dunn know that his grades were suffering and he had a little talk with Jayden, " Jayden's mother says. To her delight, Jayden's grades13 improved in the next exam.
"There is nothing like seeing a14 light up with a smile, " Dunn says. "I feel lucky to15 that every weekend. "
