• Stories from the Homeless Shelter

  • Nov 14 2022
  • Length: 43 mins
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Stories from the Homeless Shelter

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  • When my mom pulled up to Eisenhower Elementary to pick up my brother and me after school, our third and fourth grade selves noticed our cats weren’t in the car waiting for us like they usually were. She looked at me very seriously and with sad eyes: we had to give them up, she said. Cats weren’t allowed in the homeless shelter.

    I knew moving there was a possibility—we had been living in hotels for a couple of weeks, and cheap houses before that, staving off our last resort as long as we possibly could. But mom’s labor couldn’t keep us housed, and the homeless shelter was the only place left for us to go. We would be moving there today.

    From banter with the adult volunteers who came to play cards with the shelter kids, to rummaging through the donation bins from our local Walmart, to getting sexually harassed by a grown man, these stories in this pivotal place shaped me. I'm 13 years older and remember that place in this episode. These are my stories from the homeless shelter.

    You can consider donating to the shelter I lived in here: https://theconnectionnp.net/index.php/donations
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