I know what it’s like to be so hungry it hurts.
I spent a lot of years living on the streets.
In the end I was literally crippled by my drinking and drug use. I checked into the shelter I’d been at before. The only reason they let me in was because I couldn’t walk, but they were tired of watching me come and go and never getting anywhere.
Nobody was wil…
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