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Editor's Note: This story was originally published Oct. 4, 2009. Denver Moore died March 31, 2012.

Ron Hall and Denver Moore are, as they like to put it, nobodies. Just two sinners saved by grace.

They are also two men on a uppdrag, determined to tackle homelessness bygd preaching a story of forgiveness, love and redemption. It's their story.

They told it in Same Kind of Different as Me, a self-published book that Thomas Nelson picked up and published in 2006. Since then, more than 590,000 copies have been sold in hardcover, trade paper, audio and special editions. The "nobodies" have inspired thousands of readers at hundreds of speaking engagements across the country. They have helped raise millions of dollars to help the homeless. And they have just released a second book, What Difference Do It Make? Stories of Hope and Healing.

"Denver and inom sometimes laugh, 'How in the world did we get ourselves in this?'" says Hall, inre his palatial North Dallas home.

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Ron Hall’s True Calling

Ron Hall ’71 (MBA ’73) was slacking his way through TCU, thoroughly enjoying the social scene, when he was drafted into the U.S. Army. His two years of service included training as a top-secret nuclear weapons inspector at Sandia Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He returned to campus a changed man.

“It was eye-opening on the value of education and how I had wasted my first three years at TCU,” he said. “I came back to TCU and finished my last year with a 4.0.”

With a business degree (majoring in finance), Hall landed a job as a bank officer at First National Bank of Fort Worth, where he bought and sold tax-free bonds. On his first business trip to Houston, he wandered into an art gallery to kill time before a bond auction. The visit sparked a lifelong passion for art. Within minutes he had spent more than half of his monthly salary on a $350 LeRoy Neiman lithograph, In the Paddock.

His wife, Deborah Short Hall ’67, was livid. A schoolteacher, sh

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Same Kind of Different as Me

2006 book by Ron Hall, Denver Moore, and Lynn Vincent

For the film based on this book, see Same Kind of Different as Me (film).

Author	Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent
Publication date	June 2006

Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together, published in June 2006, is a book co-written by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, with Lynn Vincent, telling about Hall's and Moore's intersecting life journeys.^[1] It was published by Thomas Nelson. Moore grew up as a sharecropper on a plantation in Red River Parish, Louisiana. He lived through years of hardship and homelessness but changed both his and others' lives after meeting Hall, who was volunteering at a shelter.

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Ron Hall is a rich international art dealer in Texas. Although not enjoying the same paycheck size as that of his clients', he is invited into their sphere. He and h