title: To Hell and Back: A Former Hells Angel's Story of Recovery and Redemption
author: Joe Calendino
description: Joe Calendino is the Executive Director of Yo Bro Yo Girl Youth Initiative and works with youth in some of Vancouver's most vulnerable neighbourhoods.
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  ![Cover](images/cover.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## The Wrong Goodbye
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( The Collector - 2 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chris F. Holm
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Meet Sam Thornton, Collector of Souls.**
  
  
  
  
  
  Because of his efforts to avert the Apocalypse, Sam Thornton has been given a
  second chance — provided he can stick to the straight and narrow.
  
  
  Which sounds all well and good, but when the soul Sam’s sent to collect goes
  missing, Sam finds himself off the straight-and-narrow pretty quick.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chris F. Holm
  
  
  ## THE WRONG GOODBYE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _For Papa_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Hell is other people.”
  
  
  
  
  
  — Jean-Paul Sartre
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### 1.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Rain tore through the canopy of leaves, soaking my clothes until they hung wet
  and heavy on my limbs, but doing little to dispel the fetid stench of decay
  that pervaded every inch of this God-forsaken place.
  
  
  Just keep moving, I told myself. It’s not far now.
  
  
  Mud sucked at my shoes as I pressed onward, 