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Trying to Do Right

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Trying to Do Right

Being homeless is not an easy thing. Being homeless with federal probation on top of it is unbearable. 

Mark Gansert
Jan 8, 2021
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Trying to Do Right

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Day four after being released from federal custody. 

I am under a bridge next to the Miami River on a walkway that borders it. 

Many other homeless call this home.

It seems rightfully unfair that I am risking having my probation violated by being homeless. According to their own rules, they are supposed to have placed me into a halfway house to allow me ti…

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