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I met Ellen today at a street fair. She was holding a sign saying that she was one day away from being homeless. We got to talking, and she told me about her medical disability and how she is struggling to make it.

She let me take her portrait, and tried her best to smile.

This is my Photo Friday for the week of June 9, 2006: "Poverty"

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  1. Nadine1016 92 months ago | reply

    your connected with her an it shows..hopeshe is ok

  2. musicmuse_ca 92 months ago | reply

    Thanks Nadine. I hope so too.

  3. wander aimlessly 54 months ago | reply

    This picture makes me sad. She looks like a lot of women in Eastern Kentucky, where my mom was born. After my dad passed away when I was a child, we were often one day away from homelessness too. She reminds me of my mom.

  4. oregono1 49 months ago | reply

    Oh, my heart weeps. Oh such a bitter pill.


    And there, in the presence of no hope

    Stands my kind and thoughtful one.

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