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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Tue May 30, 2017, 01:46 PM May 2017

The homeless man who rushed to the scene of the Manchester attack has been reunited with his mum

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/homeless-man-manchester-arena-bomb-13111368

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The homeless man who rushed to the scene of the Manchester attack has been reunited with his mum (Original Post) shenmue May 2017 OP

Thanks for posting Gothmog May 2017 #1

You're welcome shenmue May 2017 #3

Nothing but good wishes for this guy and hope for the best in this reunion. ATL Ebony May 2017 #2

Take a moment to remember all the people who are dysfunctional in ordinary society... hunter May 2017 #4

Gothmog

(145,184 posts)

1. Thanks for posting

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Tue May 30, 2017, 01:52 PM

May 2017

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

3. You're welcome

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #1)

Tue May 30, 2017, 07:26 PM

May 2017

ATL Ebony

(1,097 posts)

2. Nothing but good wishes for this guy and hope for the best in this reunion.

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Tue May 30, 2017, 07:17 PM

May 2017

hunter

(38,311 posts)

4. Take a moment to remember all the people who are dysfunctional in ordinary society...

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Tue May 30, 2017, 08:06 PM

May 2017

... and often homeless for reasons far beyond their control.

"Positive thinking" or finding some god or other higher power isn't going to help them. They live in an alternate reality, sometimes a terrifying reality that makes them unlikable in our reality.

Britain has a tighter social safety net than we do, and they've still got people who fall through the gaps.

In the U.S.A. many mentally ill people end up incarcerated, or they die on the streets, murdered sometimes.

It doesn't have to be this way.

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