After a long hiatus, here’s a new episode of Facing Homelessness, the podcast from Speak Up.
For this installment, Mark Hansen reads “Junkyard Angels” by Dustin LaPres.
The original essay is available free to all readers:
Junkyard Angels
We were dreamers living under the bridges and in the train yards of my hometown. I was the youngest member of a small band of vagabond romantics who had, for various reasons, shrugged off the traditional yoke of young adulthood and had chosen to live outdoors as sort of self-realized urban survivalists and junkyard angel romantics. We held court during …
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