I recently sent a rather detailed letter relating the
strange odyssey of a homeless friend, age 66 ,in frail health, now
living in his car somewhere in Chicago- one of the most dangerous cities
in the United States. He is the nephew of a socially prominent woman
who just left a fortune to Brown University.
On Wednesday night he called me as expected. I informed him
of his aunt's death. He said he recently was escorted out a hospital by
security guards, after the hospital failed to find any shelter for him.
How many readers of the Providence Journal know about
the daily humiliation and terror of being homeless in this country ? Or
the joys of living in a broken down Lincoln Town Car ?
It seems to me that too many people who might help Dave don't even
want to hear his story. He himself is quite articulate. He represents
the All-American nightmare- a fear of falling.
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