I think it is very well written, and reflects a grim aspect of our worst side, collectively. Not that of the down-beaten and mad and homeless, but of our creation of a society in which the primary approach is to deny these people the standing of even existing, of being acknowledged as they are.

It would cost so little to organize communities of inexpensive effective housing, in which such poeple could come for shelter, basics, learning, reorientation, vitamins, plumbing, warmth, and some decent clothes that is seems almost criminal that no such place exists.

I can only assume that your library, too, has its share of these battered souls. How do you deal with it?



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