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He said, βKevin Austin?β I told him the nuns in the orphanage gave me my birth city for a surname. He said he could run me in for vagrancy. It was a crime to have no money. That was America for you. The cop, a nice guy, ended up giving me a few dollars and told me about a shelter. That was America for you, too. I went to the shelter that night, but it was full.
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