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LOGLINE: A “Last Chance” teacher in New Orleans follows her students throughout an eighteen-year journey as they navigate the storms that life throws at them.

Everybody has a story ...

A Story Like Mine  chronicles the 20 year story of 2 New Orleans students in
teacher, Diana Boylston’s class, and her attempt to help twin 16 year old brothers tell
their story of drugs, abandonment, and extreme poverty. A story that mirrored her own
life a generation earlier. The sole survivor of her nuclear family, Diana is haunted by her
own dysfunctional childhood, and failure to prevent her only sister’s suicide at the age of
16.
Her message to her students; Tell your story – I will listen. To bond with students,
Diana told her own story, which was not supposed to be in this project. It was personal,
and perhaps inappropriate to share; yet they continued, and filming began, with parental
consent.
Our story begins here in earnest. Diana met the twins, and recognized they were
raising themselves the way she and her sister had. This parallel gave rise to this
documentary, recounting the struggles of Dwan and Dwight and the parallel to Diana’s
family history.
We invite you on this journey, as we discover core issues of parental neglect and
the tragedy of undiagnosed dyslexia; as Diana and her late husband do their best to
mentor and guide the twins into adulthood.