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>> okay, bryon, scale of 1 to 10. is it excruciating? >> it hurts. >> more so than usual? >> the post treatment on the hands, they swell up really bad like boxing gloves. the swelling throbs and kills. the worst part about it is you don't realize how much you use your hands for everything in the world until you can't use them. the pain sucks but it's the frustration that really gets me. >> we almost got divorced right after we got married because he was drinking almost every night. >> the beginning of our relationship was pretty rough. i was still a heavy alcoholic when we got married. and i h...

>> bryon widner grew up in albuquerque, new mexico. >> when i was about 3 years old, i moved in with my grandparents along with my little sister. my grandmother was a severe alcoholic. i was told that i was pretty well worthless. i wouldn't ever amount to anything. this or that. by the age of 13, 14, i just started running away all the time. i became a chronic runaway at that point. just started living on the streets. >> at the age of 18, bryon joined his first white power skinhead group. the soldiers of the new reich. >> when i was a teenager, i didn't have any family. i had my friends. that'...

The only way to describe it is that the blacks and minorities were like a cockroach. they were like second class citizens. >> at age 29, julie joined the national alliance. >> the national alliance is a neo-nazi movement and this particular organization is not the kind that goes around wearing swastikas and brown shirts. they were looking for a more subtle member because they felt like if their members were in the system, they could make more changes. >> after 16 years in the movement, bryon, along with his wife julie, became disillusioned. despite repeated death threats, they got out. >> you ...

I didn't feel like going to prison. so that would have been the only other alternative. >> bryon? bryon? you're all done, buddy. open your mouth up wide. you're all done, buddy. >> try to stay on your back. you hear me? >> yeah. >> just relax. >> stay right on your back. >> bring a stretcher in. >> we're just going to take you to the wake-up room. >> he's more concerned about my stress level than anything else. he just wants me to see him so i know he's okay. because i'm a mom and i worry. thousand times more than i should. >> right now his blood pressure is 179 over 108, so we definitely want...

>> i have every right. >> daryl lamont jenkins is an anti-racist who runs the website one people's project. >> julie was, i'm guessing at her wit's end. she wanted to talk to somebody. it's obvious they are going through something. they are asking for my help so, okay. you got it. you got it. i mean, i think of you as a human first. i don't think of you as an adversary. >> bryon's first conversation with daryl lasted more than three hours. >> he was educated. he knew what the hell he was talking about. we liked lot of the same -- >> he was the son of a preacher and in the punk rock movement in...