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Just did my homeless shelter shift for the month & feeling uncharacteristically earnest so I was thinking about a Thanksgiving tweet and all I can think is how the homeless people are so decent and genuine and still trying so hard when society has let them down so badly …
like the guy who& #39;d been getting up every day at 3 AM to commute to Newark for a maintenance job for some fashion company, then coming every day in time to get a shower at the drop-in center and get to his shelter bed for a few hours& #39; sleep, and he was proudly showing us …
the website of that fashion company, these men& #39;s jackets and shirts that retailed for $500, on his half-broken phone where you could only see the image on half the screen, and he was so happy because after 2 weeks without a day off, he now had a holiday …
and he was chatting all the time to this other guest, a much younger guy who had some cognitive issue and couldn& #39;t make much sense, but the maintenance dude had taken him under his wing and was just chatting to him and keeping him company …
and maintenance dude kept thanking the volunteers, like the one night we volunteered was this huge thing. So anyway, this all sucks so bad but it& #39;s also incredible that anyone has that much courage and generosity, when so much of what we see in the world is so cheap and dark.
