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If you think that homeless people are just lazy or drug addicts, that’s a very shallow and uninformed way to look at it. Smell the Roses individualize the thousands of people that are on the streets in North Carolina. We understand that they all have a unique life story; they were all born; they all had childhoods; some good and some complicated.

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Randall started drinking alcohol, which then turned into smoking weed, then eventually he began usi

Whatever happens to the children that don't get adopted and age out of foster care?

She's waiting for a fresh start and to be reconnected with her daughter.

Tommy worked in textile for 23 years and enjoyed every minute of it. He calls it the time he was mak

She would often call him stupid, ugly, and would tell him how much better his other siblings were co

When CJ turned 19, he began selling drugs as an option to make money and support his child.

In the early 1980s, Keith was making over $100,000 a year from his gambling habits, and that wasn’t

“My name is Michael Nicholson, and this is my story.

I understand you might not have any money to give to me, but just acknowledging me or saying hello

"It was okay, mama couldn't afford no vacation, she did the best she could with seven kids"

He approached Michael as he was leaving work that night and pulled a gun on him and began to threate

“Some of the foster homes I lived in were very abusive, physically and mentally. I wouldn’t wish wha

My confidence is restored.

A poet at heart.

"It makes feel good that she thinks a lot of me, to let me move in with her."

"I had everything I ever wanted growing up"

"I sold my condo so I could be a bit more financially stable for my mother, I didn't want to put my

" It was summer of 82', I remember as if it was yesterday. I saw my friend snorting it, and I though

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