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"I once wrote a human interest article for a newspaper about a woman with three
children living in a tent with cardboard boxes for a floor. They had been
living in the tent in the woods for months, and she was dreading the oncoming
winter. She had a job but couldn’t afford housing.
My photographer and I had to hitch a ride in a brush buggy built to go through
wetland woods to get to her. She and her sons walked to the tent because she
had no car, and she had pitched it as far back from the road as she could in
hopes no one would see them and make them leave the property.
This wasn’t in some third-world country. It was in the US south and not far
from a bustling town. It was fall, and she was dreading the cold winter coming
and the hoard of hunters who would soon descend on any unmarked land.
I can’t remember the whole story because it was 30 years ago. Still, after the
story was published, she got several offers for better places to live and other
help, too. Her life changed because I got a tip and did a story. But it didn’t
help the others in the same or worse situations."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
