…how he came, lived, worked, played and suffered until he was recognized as a patriotic, useful and respected citizen, no longer a ‘frog’ and ‘pea soup eater,’ a despised Canuck.
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Tag: Biography
Homeless Payment Plan
The large building had multiple floors and housed multitudes of San Diego’s homeless. With so many homeless people all in one place, we lost our individuality
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Homeless Holidays
I hated holidays in shelters. The shelter atmosphere always seemed to drain every ounce of holiday spirit from me. Every holiday, we had to sit
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Ghost of Poverty
I had no jacket, no sleeping bag, nothing—except the clothes on my frail body. Transparent to the naked eye, I moved as a ghost. When
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Fighting for an Education
I believed I could become more than what their statistics believed I could. I also knew, outside of my mom and sister, no one else
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Library Kids
We wandered to the downtown library where we had developed a sort of friendship or understanding with the librarians in the computer lab. We trekked
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