Kevin Hart and Tim Judge can’t forget where they’ve been. They couldn’t if they tried. Their business, The Hart of Catering, is two blocks from Rittenhouse Square, where, 20 years ago, then homeless and in active addiction to drugs and alcohol, the couple would sit on a bench and hope for a better future.

Today, the pair are more than successful business owners. They’re examples of what people who once had nothing can share with their community: Not just running an in-house pay-it-forward program, not just catering swanky fundraisers like last year’s Soiree on the Square or feeding people every week at a nearby church. Together, the couple bought, opened and now operates two addiction recovery houses on the same block where they’re raising their two sons.

How do they do all this? Some

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