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DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff WriterTaffet@DallasVoice.com Earlier this month, Stephen Knight was named CNN’s Hero of the Year.

But in 2011, at the age of 51, he was homeless and living out of his car. “I had lost everything,” he said. Knight entered the recovery program at Homeward Bound, an inpatient, state-funded facility, for 60 days.

Then he went to Legacy Cares for its dual diagnosis program. “I was so inspired by my experience, I went back to school,” he said, completing his internship at Homeward Bound and, after graduation in 2016, becoming an addiction counselor at Legacy Cares.

But the previous year, in 2015, a friend of Knight’s had relapsed into addiction. She was going into rehab but had no place to put her dog.

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