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@InvisiblePeople
publishes daily news on homelessness also on Apple News and Google News
We produce social impact documentaries
We produce scripted social impact films
We produce social impact animations
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If you had three wishes, what would they be?
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If you had three wishes, what would they be?
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We imagine a world where everyone has a place to call home. Until then, we strive to be the most trusted source for homelessness news, education and advocacy.
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The Supreme Court is about to make it illegal to have a blanket on the street. Completely criminalizing homelessness. Here’s everything you need to know in 60 seconds.
Grants Pass is a small Oregon town of 40,000. Like many places in the U.S. they’re grappling with a significant
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Contrary to popular belief, many homeless people are well-educated and had successful careers prior to their life on the streets or in shelters. It's important to remember:
#Homelessness
can happen to anyone.
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Illegal to Sleep: Grants Pass’ Cruel War on Homelessness (FULL VIDEO)
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Jaleel's family kicked him out because he is gay. Jaleel is a strong young man with the dream of becoming a social worker who gives back to the community.
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“If we really care about homelessness, if we really care about trying to solve a complex issue, then I have to realize that my capacity to serve you has to be rooted in a love that only knows radical acceptance. And if I actually live radical acceptance, if I actually accept that
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Did Santa bring you a Quest 2? Then you’ll love this FREE DOWNLOAD from
@Oculus
,
@InvisiblePeople
, and film director Rose Troche. "We Live Here" is a short narrative experience that immerses you in the life of Rockey, a homeless woman living in a tent.
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I promised Bruce I’d stop by to see him so since it’s lunchtime I asked him to pick a place to eat. He likes Johnny Rockets.
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Ervin sleeps outside in his wheelchair. He has lived on the streets of Dallas for almost a week after a nursing home kicked him out for lack of insurance.
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If you had three wishes, what would they be?
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THERE IS NO HOUSING! Please remember that! $3 million worth of LA housing vouchers gets returned to HUD every year b/c NGOs cannot find landlords that will rent to homeless people. WITHOUT HOUSING, IT ALL FAILS! Today I joined a friend moving into housing. THIS MUST HAPPEN MORE!
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Woman Loses Everything in Los Angeles Homeless Sweep
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If homelessness was a punishment for bad choices, we’d all be homeless.
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Hostile architecture is used to prevent homeless people from resting in public spaces. It pointedly tells this vulnerable population, you are not welcome. Do we really want to be that type of society?
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"Displaced" follows Ray, a homeless veteran in Columbia, Missouri, as he battles a new law criminalizing homelessness. The film opens with Ray being forced out during a sweep, desperately trying to save his belongings.
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Poor and homeless people are not our enemies. It’s the richest among us who are leeching our resources with impunity:
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Imagine waking up homeless. You have to hustle to clean yourself up to be presentable at work. You stash your bedroll in the bushes hoping it will be there when you get back. You spend every moment scared that your employer may find out your secret.
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"It's being offered; there's just none available."
Politicians are not telling the truth when they say Los Angeles provides housing and services.
Watch and share the full video here
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Callie has been homeless in Los Angeles for eight years since her husband died suddenly from cancer. After 25 years of marriage, her savings were wiped out and she ended up on the streets with nowhere to go.
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TJ and Alie lost their jobs a few months back. TJ was able to get another job at a fast food restaurant, but it doesn't pay enough for them to get an apartment. In America today, homelessness has become a lack of affordable housing.
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Ageism is a severe roadblock to employment. Brent is 61 years-old. He says employers love his resume. He does great on the interview call, but when Brent shows up for the in-person interview, and they see that he's older, he never gets the job.
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Starting tomorrow, homelessness will be illegal in many areas in Los Angeles. As a result, Timothy and tens of thousands of homeless people will be displaced without being offered services and no place to go.
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Starting tomorrow, homelessness will be illegal in many areas around Los Angeles. As a result, Timothy and tens of thousands of homeless people will be displaced without being offered services and no place to go
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Christine works at McDonalds overnight and her daughter works there during the day. They are working homeless living in a weekly rate hotel and splitting shifts so one of them is there to take care of the younger children.
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Amber lives in a tent in Grants Pass, Oregon. The city has made it illegal for homeless people even just to exist. Amber has received over 30 tickets in a year and a half. She lost her job during Covid, and with the growing affordable housing crisis, she can’t afford rent.
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In 2013, I met a homeless youth on Hollywood Blvd. Today I connect with the same young man although he's no longer homelessness.
#mydayinla
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Randy is a homeless veteran living in a tent near Columbus, Ohio. He keeps trying to work with the Department of Veteran Affairs, but they informed him that he is not "homeless enough".
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Marvin spent eight years in the military. He says he now receives $230 a month in disability. No one can afford to live much less rent an apartment on that amount of money!
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A Bronx Librarian Keen on Teaching Homeless Children a Lasting Love of Books
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I didn't sleep much last night thinking about 45 homeless veterans sleeping outside of the VA. They've been there for years. As soon as someone gets housing, another veteran shows up, often without anything even a tent. Mutual aid groups donate tents. Social services are broken!
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Mike broke his leg on the job. He went into a nursing home and had to relearn to walk. He lost his employment and soon after his apartment. It was 30 degrees last night in Philadelphia, yet Mike sleeps in a doorway of a pizza shop downtown.
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Troy and Michael move what belongings they can to the corner so sanitation doesn't throw away what they own. As soon as the sweep is over, they will move back. Why? THEY HAVE NO PLACE ELSE TO GO!
Please watch and share the full video
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Invisible People's latest documentary takes a deep dive into the ongoing legal battle against homelessness in Grants Pass, Oregon. The US Supreme Court is set to rule on whether local governments can enforce bans on sleeping in public spaces at all times,
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If you had three wishes, what would they be?
***updated longer version
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This is Charlie's 1st day homeless. Charlie had an apartment on Staten Island, but he lost everything in a fire. The night before Charlie slept in an abandoned building.
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Sophia is 76. She told me she’d been outside for three years, but from our conversation, I’d say it’s been longer. Another homeless man came and grabbed me asking, “please help her.” Sophia desperately needs help. There is no one to call, and sadly, there are many just like her.
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Making Eye Contact with Homeless People Is Important
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This behind-the-scenes look into
@InvisiblePeople
's 3rd scripted film, Eviction, provides a preview of the story of Martha, a Black single mom raising her daughter faced with a housing crisis and homelessness in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Contrary to popular belief, many homeless people are well-educated and had successful careers prior to their life on the streets or in shelters. Homelessness can happen to anyone.
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Charlie is homeless in Pasadena. He sleeps outside almost every night. Occasionally like tonight when it’s raining, he will pay for a hotel room to get inside where it’s warm. Charley has a job – a good job, yet he still cannot afford rent in Los Angeles.
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Seattle: More than Half of Indigenous Women Surveyed Are Homeless
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Poor and homeless people are not our enemies. It’s the richest among us who are leeching our resources with impunity:
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My friend Carmen builds tiny homes for homeless people. I asked him if they have bathrooms. Please listen to his response:
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Rule has been homeless since the age of 13. He is now 22. Rule has slept outside, in abandoned buildings, on couches, on trains, on buses, and hotel rooms. He says he has experienced every type of homelessness.
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Linda worked as a dental hygienist but started to lose her vision and lost her job a little over four years ago. She is now homeless and sleeps on the streets of Boston.
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Amber is homeless and putting herself through Los Angeles City College on just general relief (GR) income, which is $220 a month in California.
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Christine works at McDonalds overnight and her daughter works there during the day. They are working homeless living in a weekly rate hotel and splitting shifts so one of them is there to take care of the younger children.
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We publish daily news on homelessness
We produce short films
We produce mini-documentaries
First-person stories from homeless people
Messaging research
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A now formerly homeless man shared this in our online support group. When was the last time you appreciated taking a shower like this?
FYI, Gabe is his dog.
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1) Lack of Affordable Housing 2) Poverty 3) Lack of Affordable Healthcare. These are the leading causes of homelessness in the US - not Mental Illness!
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When a bus is retired, they sell for around $2k. This bus sleeps 31 people. They park outside of homeless shelters to provide overflow so no one sleeps outside in the cold! Total cost to build was $100k. Why are there not more bus shelters especially in cold weather cities!
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If homeless people were truly lazy, they would not survive.
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Imagine being homeless and still getting evicted eight different times in three months.
Woman Loses Everything in Los Angeles Homeless Sweep
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This is the face of homelessness. Charmain has been on the streets of NYC since 2005. The fact that Charmain has not been placed into housing is not surprising. The fact that she is still alive after living so long on the streets is.
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It's like the homeless services sector is stuck on being a decade behind in tech. Leveraging homeless people's use of mobile phones to access services and reduce the burden on staff is so common sense but it's completely overlooked.
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🏡 Democrats are rallying for over $150 billion to tackle the housing crisis and homelessness. Rep. Maxine Waters urges support for bills like the "Housing Crisis Response Act" and "End Homelessness Act." Learn more:
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Amber is homeless and putting herself through Los Angeles City College on just general relief (GR) income, which is $220 a month in California.
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Now that
@invisiblepeople
posts daily news on homelessness, I am always looking for photos. This morning, I found these. One of my biggest concerns as homelessness grows is people will become anesthetized to it. It's already happening in many communities.
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Imagine waking up homeless. You have to hustle to clean yourself up to be presentable at work. You stash your bedroll in the bushes hoping it will be there when you get back. You spend every moment scared that your employer may find out your secret.
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A homeless man being shot by officers in plain clothes who did not identify themselves as law enforcement is emblematic of the rising violence faced by those without a home. 🏠
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HARM REDUCTION WORKS! HOUSING WORKS! I first met this young woman almost five years ago (photo on right) when she was addicted to heroin. She was 23 then and homeless! CHECK OUT THE PHOTO ON THE LEFT! She went into harm reduction housing, and now she's in college to be a nurse!
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There’s a homeless woman out here with severe mental illness I run into every day. She’s probably been abused a lot. I have tried to give her socks many times but she won’t talk to me. That just changed. She took a pair of socks and gave me a big smile! I AM HAPPY!
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Rachel is among the many homeless individuals who are facing the harsh consequences of San Diego’s approach to criminalizing homelessness. She says homelessness is the hardest job she has ever had and often walks miles for water and food every day:
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Contrary to popular belief, many homeless people are well-educated and had successful careers prior to their life on the streets or in shelters. It's important to remember:
#Homelessness
can happen to anyone.
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When all homeless people are included in the statistics, we learn only 26% of the entire homeless community suffers from a serious drug addiction. This means the overwhelming majority, which equates to 74%, are not addicted to drugs.
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Today I toured a shipping container housing site. Unlike the tiny shacks politicians call homes, these are not referred to as homes even though they have bathrooms, which the tiny shacks do not. This project is very promising providing dignity to people soon to be living there!
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Ervin sleeps outside in his wheelchair. He has lived on the streets of Dallas for almost a week after a nursing home kicked him out for lack of insurance.
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Amber is homeless and putting herself through Los Angeles City College on just GR (general relief) income, which is $220 a month in California.
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Serious question - why do we (homeless services) make it so ridiculously hard for a homeless person to get the support they need?
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Dawn and her husband currently live in a tent. After reading nasty comments about homeless people on the app Nextdoor, Dawn wrote this response reminding people to be kind to their neighbors:
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Having a smartphone is a lifeline for homeless people - it allows them to apply for jobs, access assistance and opens up an entire network of resources. This article is the first in a series outlining the necessity of keeping people connected:
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I kind of got used to living in jail because I had food to eat and a place to sleep” are words that should never come out of anyone’s mouth, especially not a twenty seven year-old woman who has been homeless since fourteen.
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Olga lives in a tent in Los Angeles. She has a part time job working as a maid at a hotel in Nothridge. She is one of several homeless people we talked to today that have jobs but just cannot afford to pay for rent.
#MyDayInLA
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The truth is there's not enough services and there is no housing to help people
Watch the full video here
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It’s easy to blame homeless people for a fire. But no matter how the fire started, the only real solution to ending encampment fires is ending homelessness.
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80 years old, sleeping on the sidewalk in San Diego. Another 70-year-old homeless woman told me this evening there are too many grandmothers and grandfathers sleeping outside on the streets. Elderly homelessness continues to grow. I've been screaming about it for 15 years. The
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All it takes is one conversation with one unhoused person to change the ugly perceptions about homeless people. ~ Adam Conover, TV Host and SELAH Volunteer
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Someone emailed me a photo of Vegas’s courtyard model. Notice the barbed wire. Homeless people are allowed to sleep on the floor. They are given a mat. There is no social distancing. This is what Las Vegas invests in to solve homelessness.
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28 MILLION NEW HOMELESS PEOPLE! 28 MILLION NEW HOMELESS PEOPLE! 28 MILLION NEW HOMELESS PEOPLE! 28 MILLION NEW HOMELESS PEOPLE! 28 MILLION NEW HOMELESS PEOPLE! 28 MILLION NEW HOMELESS PEOPLE! 28 MILLION NEW HOMELESS PEOPLE!
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Posted this morning in our online support group for homeless and formerly homeless people.
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A homeless man just posted this in our online peer support group. I am not sure who else needed to see this. I know I sure did.
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Amber is homeless and putting herself through Los Angeles City College on just general relief (GR) income, which is $220 a month in California.
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When all homeless people are included in the statistics, we learn only 26% of the entire homeless community suffers from a serious drug addiction. This means the overwhelming majority, which equates to 74%, are not addicted to drugs.
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I wish people were less concerned about a homeless person's past and more focused on helping them have a future.
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Liz sleeps in MacArthur Park. She told me she’s been outside for months. I asked Liz about the sweep tomorrow. She has a lot of stuff to move. Liz told me she has no choice but to move to another area. Displacing people w/o offering support is cruel and makes homelessness worse.
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The heat has arrived, and homeless people have nowhere to cool down as public places are closed due to coronavirus. Learn how you can help them:
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Contrary to popular belief, many homeless people are well-educated and had successful careers prior to their life on the streets or in shelters. It's important to remember:
#Homelessness
can happen to anyone.
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Giving Money to Homeless People Is Okay
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If homeless people were truly lazy, they would not survive.
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Michelle lost her job and then her apartment. Michelle's daughter went to go stay with her godmother while Michelle ended up on the streets homeless. She thought it would only be for a short period of time. That was almost two years ago.
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Humans make trash. Housed humans get trash pickup. Homeless humans do not. That’s the main reason there’s a lot of trash at homeless camps.
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Jana slept on the sidewalk in Los Angeles last night. She has been homeless a little over three months now. Jana's husband of 22 years was shot and killed.
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Imagine waking up homeless, hustling to clean yourself up to be presentable at work. You stash your bedroll in the bushes hoping it will be there when you get back. You spend every moment scared your employer may find out your secret. Meet Charlie:
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Criminalizing homelessness and giving tickets to people who have no other choice but to pitch a tent and sleep outside makes zero sense. Criminalization does nothing to end homelessness and is a complete waste of taxpayer money.
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Imagine waking up homeless, hustling to clean yourself up to be presentable at work. You stash your bedroll in the bushes hoping it will be there when you get back. You spend every moment scared your employer may find out your secret. Meet Charlie:
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It’s hard for people to understand why a homeless person won’t give up their pet. For starters, housed people don’t want to give up their pets either. For many homelsss people, their pet is the only love they receive. Pets are also a distraction from the hell of homelessness!
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I asked Nicole why she sleeps next to the street. She responded they force her to sleep there. I thought it was her mental illness speaking, but then Nicole continued, “it’s illegal for me to sleep close to a building or near a door, so I have to sleep here.” THINK ABOUT THAT!
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