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Tempus-Magazine.com Holiday 2014 / 2015 61 MORRIS DREAMS OF THE DAY HE GOES OUT OF BUSINESS. He longs for a time when someone asks him how things are going at Love146 and he's able to say, " 'We're going to be able to shut down our operations by the end of this year because we've been doing prevention so well that there's no need any- more to build shelters for kids who have been exploited and raped multiple times a day for months and years.' Tat's the goal and the dream." Prevention starts with education, and for Morris and Love146 it means going into places like Cambodia and Tailand and teaching people to beware when a stranger comes in to their community offering the promise of jobs and fnancial help. "And it's not just in Asia," Morris says. "We've edu- cated over thirteen thousand youths since 2010 in public schools and congregant care centers here in the U.S. It's basically going in and talking about vulnerabilities and the things people prey on. We've had people at the end of education programs that we've done in schools come up to our social worker afterward and say, 'Man, I have a friend that this is happening to right now.'" Predators do not discriminate. Tey prey on vulnerabilities and they exploit and they use and they devour. Rob Morris is not a na- ive man; he knows every story does not have a fairy-tale ending. But just when he thinks he's seen it all something punches him in the gut. Last summer Love146 brought a four-year-old girl into its care, the youngest ever. Her parents were selling her to foreign pedophiles in a park in a city in the Philip- pines. Four years old. Let that sink in a mo- ment. "As much as I want to stand in front of a four-year-old girl and promise her that everything is going to be all right, I can't in all honesty promise that," Morris says. "But I can say to her that as long as you want us on this journey with you, we're in it with you and we'll fght for you, we'll defend you, we'll walk with you through this. Whatever it takes we'll be in it for the long haul. Tat's what we can promise as an organization." Some wonder if Love146's vision of noth- ing less than the abolition of child trafck- ing and exploitation is a little too ambitious, maybe even unrealistic. Morris says no, it's not unrealistic, it's audacious, and it takes audacity to change the world. No, Rob Mor- ris is not a naive man. He's seen the cruelty of the world, and he knows there is much work ahead. "Justice is the long haul," he says. "It takes perseverance. And we do it with joy." Still, on some nights, when it's dark and qui- et, he closes his eyes and fnds himself in that room. He sees the girls in the dresses and the numbers pinned to their shoulders. He sees the TV fickering in the corner and he smells the smoke and sweat of the predators right next to him. Ten he sees her face, and looks into her eyes. Tose eyes. Te eyes that will always haunt him. Josh Farro, former lead guitarist of Paramore, with a 146 patch on his guitar strap playing at a concert. Farro, along with current Paramore band members are supporters of Love146. PGA Golfer, Corey Pavin, sporting a Love146 hat. Pavin and his wife, Lisa, have been a long time supporters and were instrumental in Love146's 10th Anniversary celebration and fund raiser in 2012. Baume Mercier & Love146 Fund Raiser (left to right) Rudy Chavez, Love146 board chair and president of Baume and Mercier, North America; Michel Nieto; Stephan Baldwin, actor; Carolyn Cole, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer; and Rob Morris, Love146 president and co-founder