The Good Life – September-October 2018

ON THE COVER | WIL DORT
Thankfully, during his sentence, Dort was introduced to a program called the Jail
Chaplains Association. In Haiti, his dad was a voodoo priest and Dort attended church
stubbornly in Fargo as a kid, but never really found his faith.
"I knew I wanted to change. I felt like (Mb) was an angel and I was a demon,” he said.
"I believe God put us together. The things that I put her through – to stick with me – I
believe only in Christ you find that kind of love.”
By the grace of God, a man looking to open a barber shop asked Dort to work for him.
However, without his license, Dort wouldn’t have been qualified… that is, until the man
offered to pay for his education.
"When you start doing the right things, the right things start to happen,” Dort
said. “I had to put my faith into action and my life started changing.”
Thankfully, he was granted school release and able to continue his
studies. But with no other means of transportation, Dort was forced
to ride his cellmate’s daughter’s purple bike from Cass County Jail to
Moler Barber College in downtown Fargo. Sidewalks full of snow, it
wasn’t an easy ride.
"I kept telling myself, 'I'm riding toward success,’” Dort recalled.
And little by little, his dreams grew larger. "I remember
telling my cellies, ‘I'm going to open a barbershop.'
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