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Jan. 1, 2025: Start the New Year with stories of second chances and positivity

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Husband and wife Hanna Boiarska and Ievgen Potykun fled Kyiv with their three children when Russia invaded Ukraine. Now they run Freedom Folding Bikes in Boulder, Colo. October 8, 2024.

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On New Year's Day, stories of second chances. Like a Ukrainian couple who fled the war and resettled in Boulder, where they run a bike shop. And a barbershop in Denver where former inmates offer a shave and a haircut. Plus, migrant farmworkers who hope their children don't toil in the fields as they have. Education is key, and there's a program in Colorado planting those very seeds.