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John Carlisle tells a tale of Erick Brown, Detroit's goat man, that will touch anyone with a feeling heart:
He’s disabled. His closest friend is a goat. He lives in a house that has no heat or water. And he was nearly beaten to death during a recent robbery.
Yet he thinks life is beautiful.
Erick Brown has spent a lifetime trying to find a place to fit in. The 31-year-old suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was a toddler. He doesn’t talk or act like other people. He’s socially awkward and childlike.
“I grew up as a person with disabilities,” he said. “I’ve always been picked on my whole life because I’ve always been different.”
He was bullied as a kid. Laughed at as an adult. He's had few real friends. All of this could've made him bitter and withdrawn. Instead, he somehow became a sunny proponent of peace and love, an energetic advocate for the outcasts and the oddballs who aren’t considered normal or mainstream. Just like him.
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