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By Janel Martinez | Published January 10, 2011 | Full size is 500 × 320 pixels

TED WILLIAMS: It was the first feel good story of the New Year: homeless man with a "golden voice" becomes a YouTube sensation overnight and receives a job offer from the Cleveland Cavaliers, a home, and an emotional reunion with his estranged mother after more than 20 years apart. For Williams, this was more than a come up, it was a second chance to redeem the man he once was, the man he lost to decades of drug abuse and crime. Williams' inspiring story has reinvigorated hope in millions of Americans that miracles do happen.

TED WILLIAMS: It was the first feel good story of the New Year: homeless man…