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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 649253" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>Headlights,</p><p></p><p>first of all, thank you for being kind to that homeless guy, for seeing him as a person. My son has been homeless now for three years, and he looks as one might think...not like the son of two professionals, but like a wild crazy dirty homeless person. I hope that sometimes people talk with him and see him as a person as well.</p><p></p><p>second...I totally understand your fear of seeing your own son like that. Of course I DO have that privilege sometimes...I see mine begging in front of McDonalds on a cardboard mat sometimes, although not recently. Once a friend of mine emailed me to say he say him begging on the off ramp of a nearby highway. Often when I am out running I pause, or veer to the side, to peer into the face of the bundle of rags lying by the side of the river path...to see...is it my son? so far it has never been, although few times I've seen him smoking in an alley behind dumpsters. </p><p></p><p>Who foresaw this world? even I have a hard time seeing his humanity sometimes.</p><p></p><p>Tomorrow I"m taking him for lunch at a big food court. In an effort to share our humanity. </p><p></p><p>Echo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 649253, member: 17269"] Headlights, first of all, thank you for being kind to that homeless guy, for seeing him as a person. My son has been homeless now for three years, and he looks as one might think...not like the son of two professionals, but like a wild crazy dirty homeless person. I hope that sometimes people talk with him and see him as a person as well. second...I totally understand your fear of seeing your own son like that. Of course I DO have that privilege sometimes...I see mine begging in front of McDonalds on a cardboard mat sometimes, although not recently. Once a friend of mine emailed me to say he say him begging on the off ramp of a nearby highway. Often when I am out running I pause, or veer to the side, to peer into the face of the bundle of rags lying by the side of the river path...to see...is it my son? so far it has never been, although few times I've seen him smoking in an alley behind dumpsters. Who foresaw this world? even I have a hard time seeing his humanity sometimes. Tomorrow I"m taking him for lunch at a big food court. In an effort to share our humanity. Echo [/QUOTE]
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