Andre Patterson choked back tears as he told his story to the roomful of people at the Manteca Transit Center Thursday night. He was a drug dealer who was addicted to meth and after an argument with his wife landed him in jail on a variety of charges, he was looking at 15 years in prison for the mistakes that he made when was out running the streets. But it was when he learned that his wife and children had gone to live at a homeless shelter that he really broke down in tears – himself, at the time, undergoing a year-long stint at a Salvation Army recovery program that he agreed to in lieu of going to prison.