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Comfort
Judy sold copies of HomeTown, a weekly newspaper that reported on the homeless and homeless issues. Her regular spot was on the sidewalk outside of the food co-op just a few blocks from Faith Village where she could catch the eye of guilt ridden health food nuts as they left the store with their granola and tofu. Each copy of HomeTown sold for a dollar. She got seventy cents out of that. The rest went to production costs and modest salaries for the staff and token payments to the contributors. On a good day, standing for six hours, which was about all she could stand, she sold twenty copies. Fourteen dollars. It wasn’t much for a day’s work, but it was enough for her to survive in Faith Village.
One morning, after selling her papers, she returned home to her tent for a snack
