Jan 08 2009
From honors student to homeless man… (Part one)
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Growing up in Prince George’s County, I was used to seeing the poor, the struggling, the destitute. I knew how to recognize homeless people and how to avoid them. In my childhood, I had always wondered how someone can join the bottom rung of society and during my senior year in college, I found one of the many avenues it takes to become homeless.
The odd thing about all this is that I was always a hard worker in school. I was on the good side of many teachers and always pushed myself to perfection and beyond. Yet, at the beginning of 2008, I found myself struggling for survival. How did I fall so far? In short, a girl. But really, she was just the beginning of the fall of the house of cards onto the dominos of my life.
