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Street people who are they? They are the anonymous people that we walk past every day, they are the people who all have their own story to tell but have no one to tell it to.
They are the they are the mother, father, grandfather, grandmother,daughter and son.
They are people that have lost their way and do not know how find the way back.
Some of them look for the way in the bottom of a bottle or a crack pipe,some sell their bodies in order to get enough money to buy their way back, but they never make quite enough.
They are the children from abusive homes who prefer the street than endure another day of abuse.
They are the children of the lost, who threw their children out along with the trash.
They are the banker, the baker, the candlestick maker who because of divorce or bad decisions can now call the street their home.
They are the mentally ill, who are tossed on to the street because there is no room at the inn.
They are the elderly, whose families are either gone or don't care.
They are the war veterans who were promised help, and the help they were promised was a long time coming.
They are the con artists who will work for food.
They are the disabled, who are not quite disabled enough to claim disability.
They are the people that fall between the cracks.
They are the forgotten.
'There but for the grace of god go I".
Street people who are they? They are you and I.

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