A social worker uses gardening to help youth heal from trauma [yoursun.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 12/23/205:10 AM

By Rohan Preston, Feeling Fit, December 19, 2020

The decades may have helped the wound to close over, but you can still feel the hurt under his words.

Gardener and social worker Kenny Turck was in grade school when his big sister committed suicide at 21. An outspoken daughter of Litchfield, Minn., the Crow River community that her family had called home since 1875, Kathy Turck was gay and the victim of a horrific assault.

"She was raped by four men, and the judge blamed the assaults on her lifestyle," Turck said, his eyes falling away.

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