True Story©... Outside the Library...
True Story©… Sometimes I like to sit and listen to OTHER people’s True Story©. In my current position, I am downtown Burlington NC. Before August, my building was right across the street from the public library. One consistent in the whole of the United States of America is that a public library will draw the infirmed; homelesses, unemployed--… the needy public in general. I don’t judge people for their outward appearances any more than a reasonable person would – and trust, ALL people do if they admit or not – but sometimes I would sit outside on my lunch breaks when I was up there or will walk by when I walk around the block now on breaks/lunches and I talk to people about their stories. I have gotten a lot of good stories: - A woman who had a couple of kids by a drug dealer who did well by them until getting caught, but literally didn’t know how to hold down a household when he was gone and now was in this position during the