Karen is a 51-year-old female with a diagnosis of high
cholesterol, high blood pressure, and depression. She is a well-educated woman,
with a degree in Human Resource Management and nearly finished with her marketing
degree. Her son’s suicide at age 20 began a downward spiral in her life. She
became severely depressed, lost her job, divorced, and lived with various
family members before relocating to this area. Since moving here she has been
homeless – living in her car. She has a
friend who lets her shower at her house.
How do you live in a car??? I can’t even picture it – in the
heat, in the cold… where do you pee? How do you fix a meal? How do you take
care of yourself?
We live in a community that has
blinders on about homelessness. There is no shelter, no place to take a shower,
no safe place to sleep. We pretend that homelessness is a problem of “big
cities,” not a problem here. And, we do nothing.
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