When a homeless Alabama man walked into a restaurant asking for work, he found a sympathetic owner willing to take a chance on an honest soul. He likely didn’t expect his whole community to soon join in the effort to help him back on his feet. “I graduated high school on an advanced diploma,” Taylor Thompson told The Epoch Times. “I went to college for engineering and criminal justice.” However, the 28-year-old Mobile native dropped out because there were things “going on at home.” Taylor lived with his father, an ironworker, and mother, a licensed nurse, in an abusive home. His parents eventually separated. It was Taylor’s battle with mental illness and substance abuse, though, that caused him to hit rock bottom. He recalls an incident after leaving college when he was tazed by police and strapped into a wheelchair in a psychiatric hospital. Terrified and humiliated, that was when Taylor …