From The Barnstable Patriot:
Before Mike Devlin Jr. was heading into Barnstable High School for a day’s classes, he would pat his own head some 30 times to make sure every single hair was in place. He had to look perfect.
“I remember trying to fit in, a people pleaser. I would try to buy my friendship and my worth. I was afraid that people were picking me apart,” said Mike.
Meanwhile, back at his home on Main Street in Centerville, his mother, Anita Baglaneas Devlin, wanted all her neighbors to think she had a perfect family.
Neither of them knew at the time that Mike’s burgeoning addiction to opiates would dash their world of appearances, eventually bringing them both to rock bottom.