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Recovering heroin addicts Timothy Huesman (left) and Larry Sago talk about their recovery at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addict Timothy Huesman talks about his recovery at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addict Larry Sago talks about his recovery at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addict Larry Sago talks about his recovery at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addict Larry Sago holds some of the dry walling tools he has learned to use in the job training program at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addict Larry Sago holds some of the dry walling tools he has learned to use in the job training program at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addict Timothy Huesman climbs the stairs to the library at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addict Timothy Huesman enters the library at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addict Timothy Huesman looks for a book in the library at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Affordable Recovery Foundation owner Mary Jo Dunleavy plays basketball with her dog Faith in the gym at Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addict Timothy Huesman shoots basketball in the gym at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addicts Larry Sago (right) and Timothy Huesman sit in the chapel while talking about their recovery at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addict Timothy Huesman shoots basketball in the gym at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Affordable Recovery Foundation owner Mary Jo Dunleavy and her dog Faith walk through the auto shop department which is part of the work program instruction at Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addicts Larry Sago (right) and Timothy Huesman sit in the chapel while talking about their recovery at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addicts Larry Sago (right) and Timothy Huesman sit in the chapel while talking about their recovery at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addicts Timothy Huesman (left) and Larry Sago pause while talking about their recovery at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addicts Larry Sago (right) and Timothy Huesman sit in the chapel while talking about their recovery at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addict Timothy Huesman talks about his recovery at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addicts Larry Sago (right) and Timothy Huesman sit in the chapel while talking about their recovery at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Recovering heroin addict Timothy Huesman talks about his recovery at the Affordable Recovery Foundation in Blue Island, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2012. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
Their “home” is a converted high school with two-man, dormitory-style rooms. Affordable Recovery Housing in Blue Island nevertheless is a big step up for Timothy Huesman and Larry Sago. Huesman, 32, and Sago, 44, are recovering heroin addicts, two of the faces of a drug …