or to separating those two things and i'm cruising where there's nothing separating those two things i was struck for tertian julie going over to some skid row this is a newer proven nice they'll turn back to you were to be robbed and people didn't come down to see into downtown produce while the heroin addicts three of you know all this is dirt fields and burn barrels and they were cut your throat down to your people to come past main street you doing dishes call the pittsburgh being down. the people were told a different sort of the whole generation. just seen any potential real estate story for ground troops here people are interested. in much interest on the people who are on the ground everyone who lands on skid row has a story to tell about how they got there for many it's the last stop after losing everything for sun to fall a specially turn to take my life you know prior to coming to escape. in some ways

like most people and i know ways it was a little bit different you know i am i was born in compton grew up there with five brothers and sisters lost my dad when i was three my mom when i was fourteen at that point i moved out to california and i was nath laid in high school and decent student and started smoking weed you know in high school at the age of fourteen after my mom passed away yet and still you know i was good enough athletically to earn a full scholarship to university of iowa state university where i was a national champion in track and field and also i was able to go and qualify for the olympic games in eighty four where i actually competed and i want to soak the medal so to eighteen years old you know obviously going into the olympics a year at a high school was very exciting i had a lot of emotion going on. you know one nine hundred eighty eight i started to experiment with other drugs i ended up. you know getting involved with cocaine i

freebasing cocaine and that was the beginning of a twenty year journey for me as an addict i had lost everything i had lost my shoe contract i had lost my house i had lost all the financial means that i. was really on the street. sleeping on the street for the first time and actually laying down on the sidewalk you know in trying to close your eyes and next to go to sleep when you're outdoors those are the things as an addict that most people don't really talk about so the first time i came down to skid row i was pretty much horrified and. i was amazed at the number of english were down here i was amazed and where some of the people had come from. the midnight mission first opened its doors and nine hundred fourteen cents and thousands have passed through its drug and alcohol treatment program. two hundred

forty four men occupy this space here at the mission and we're going to go and see where i got my humble beginnings in recovery this is the residence when you first come into the midnight mission everyone that comes in has to come through this dormitory first. so this was my big c three up and you can see this in the this is just the way it was when i when i got here i did a lot of soul searching this bit right here i had to make up my mind whether or not i was going to try to stay sober what the program was for me what i was really doing here you know at forty one years old what are you going to do i mean at that point for me it was either you go forward you know what the other lifestyle or you try to pull back and do something different. any time you can fall from grace or you fall from from lofty heights if you want to use that word. it's humbling.

the area has always attracted outsiders. some stay for a. while others never. come albert olsen but everybody calls me bam bam i'm a punky ex new yorker my story starts way back when i was a kid unfortunately. in nursery school i beat my teacher would achieve i was thrown out of every school ever went to i've been seeing elucidating and hearing voices i've since i was a kid i got i'm one of those cases where i'm bipolar schizoaffective i have anti-social personality disorder p.t.s.d. i have intimate rage just sort of a major nightmare disorder i also have a gender identity disorder where i'm taking hormones for a transgender issue for sexual reassignment to get my hair and went down a car they're good spot to summon a festering want to give old. crack

a band of weed man the next block i came down here following most two years ago is how i'm going to be two years for me so i spent a good two years down. gentle to god ever do again there commit suicide next time. being so nasty horrible and everything's over the place makes you you know makes you want to do something with your life sized doing this because this is really rough to do this and i went to the service i got from out of the service for a bad conduct one thing is really stinks the fact it doesn't rain here doesn't wash the urine in the pool the way it's a smell just gets worse and worse i beat up my mother and my sisters and i took my kid and by losing my kid and everything else i really really really lost my mind and i was when i first became homeless because i couldn't rationally. deal with where my life had gone i've been electrician for all these years. always

worked. back in the mid seventy's through the mid eighty's we didn't call him homeless back then we were emptying our mental hospitals by basically saying now we have the meds that will help you and you can also get on disability so go forth and take care of yourself the predominant population on the row at that time and continues to date are the homeless mentally ill obviously many of them are also involved with addiction and and sometimes you can't figure out which came first and that doesn't even matter the fact is they've got melanoma a serious mental illness because the institutions don't exist anymore breaking close down all those places they took all the mental people they gave it to society and then where do we go you either get committed and get locked in and smoke a cigarette three times a day and when they tell you or you sit on the street you become homeless and you can at least have your own life to some point. in many ways it's an open asylum for

the mentally ill we don't have closed asylums anymore except for our jails and our prisons l.a. county twin towers jail is the largest mental institution in the united states. because we no longer hospital arms are mentally ill so we criminalize them because of their behavior on the streets people were really questioning me like how can you open a place just for people who are crazy isn't that really stigmatized. and i said no i think we're going to be just the most righteous best drop in center we're going to have the best food we're going to feel like a family we're going to just make it a place people want to come to. that's how we grew land so that people had a place. to stay at night. to sound too we had

a hundred employees half of them were members we also set up. i came in contact with some of the most beautiful people that one could ever know we're. a family. you know we cook together we eat together we play cards to gather we sing together karaoke. plans to deal with all types of people. first city and never in my life in any place i mean all types of people all types when i decided to come down and. i saw people just like me depression was one of my biggest things. i've been called in is i was seven years old i love this it was a. i do it in

a way every task that i have no real fibro mitosis. where there are two little girl in and out around the city nurses. my body. i know myself. that are going on my body i had my breast dealing with cancer so i'm trying to be strong and i'm trying to be you know it you know and just enjoy my life what i have right now what i'm doing right now is. loving myself. or taking care of my business no matter how much pain i'm me and i got to do. an article at business insider brags for americans who feel insecure about their country in light of trying to suppress it. may be reassuring to know that while the

chinese would rather move to the united states and stay at home yesterday chinese are getting green cards in record numbers do they love you for your freedom well not exactly for according to the headline china's wealthiest citizens are fleeing to the u.s. amid corruption crackdown yes you americans should feel so insecure because apparently america is the best place to flee if you are corrupt. creating these sustainable operations focused on making it and what you are making my term self interest and so that is what you don't want has always been the case and have. businesses for hundreds of years without using the vehicle. but i think we're going to capitalism do it was this notion that economists brought to it which was the idea of profit maximizing.

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those homes for ford to use blood sure. was a cause i could get in school that didn't want to go in. and do find the. steward came to the really become of history no c.e.o. should be building up. a car from a home very good home. very good home i want to live on the street. i learned i learned i went to the horse school marks because that's what this is an issue very wise to life and people. can read right away. i mean with this bitterness where you just put everybody where the media not i just admit it you are saying. one side of my lowly outside. just paints. right here. those pillow. i was born in

a trailer house over here in san pedro my father was in the service in world war two then i was raised in new mexico where my grandmother was born and from the men of client so rich and powerful clan in new mexico it and i would put four years all together in arkansas and i put the last twenty years in hail but arizona. i had my first cats when i was three years old leven that i've been feeding these for over five years now i had to pay for fifty a month or cat food i couldn't get to two. i get food but you forget that i had to pay two and three and four dollars a night for star from containers anabolic skulls like eight dollars for just a few those thing that struck me worst when i saw the skid row was there was no clean fresh water for the birds and camps they let caustic solutions and all kinds

of poisons go and psych drugs in the waters to camps on the verge of drinking and no clean food supply for them who should know by now is the motel room where this care food is a lot more compact in the they can. get a kink in to get again saying there is none of this now this is a problem the uniform know this no this is the one that had the signs can right here. the month in kitty and it looked like a rat well this last race i got it to a reader. so we hopefully will have more. yellows kill them we once had a lot of red in her warm yeah that means i don't care for anything rare in bloom you may have room there for purple pisser. porno at the ready with that right settle with lulu last final moulin allowed in purple k.

and less than last night. and as a psycho a little insight in someone on the sun like out of a license around and the law a law and her rightful rule sexually harassing. you fix the press. thank our with no one knows that carolyn is out cycle or level or anything. let alone attack that way and our way the round unless you're not here so no. to ramble but i meant to because a guy was bothering her one day and i just didn't like. people to take advantage of oh people. when he was taking a bend over so i intervened and she for good enough there she just kind of adopted me as her fiance and i've been her fiance or since that's been nine years ago we did i started to like her as a person and i start to understand her who she is right here and her.

mental illness with the collection of trash she has stored just full of cash like three different was just completely piled up that she pay every month nothing but. but that's who she is and i take her just who for who she is it and that's why she loves. different i guess that's hard to mobilises from god. you know because in the beginning was like truly i was a friend or with my life you lead a behind the scene where you are your. life is. life it's a conundrum to be a good. story and everybody down here knows that if they bother her they're going to have to deal with me so they basically don't bother her at all. they hate her she cares all the church. dresses she let her.

richard be a long time to people off the street or why you don't or she wanted to doesn't want that see people understand she you have to let them be who they are when she's ready to go inside. you she wants to live almost should you have to live her litter slots or should i still live on the street even though she has a horse. she's a trail large ones there were she go. through even those mothers will set the money he she gave him he spent on drugs and these people give him one drug no one else to buy more they keep psyching him. and he almost finished a psychology course and with three years of medical school ended up at medical school it crackle i can end up so bad can memory sing and now i sing that one back to medical school even though he has pancreatic cancer which is really a sick move. he is she is a lot of ways and he caused me a lot of grief. as ok we know we're family how this will play lower la la.

well this is bad. this is not how. i was sleeping else and truly a blanket. will close friends. sometimes i still go outside and sleep. sometimes when i'm inside it reminds me of why the hell out of there at the age of sixteen. i tried to have myself committed to a hospital because i wasn't going to acting with other people and healthy way i didn't feel connected to anything i remember feeling very depressed and. i thought well i just saved the world in myself you know

a headache if i go in at sixteen then i never have to come back out again but they would accept me. they would be with a bad place to be you know i ran away from home at seventeen years old and i actually got a job paid writ in school. that mary at the age of twenty one had my daughter my first daughter it was twenty two then and my other daughter and then my last dollar baby. their father divorced me at that point i mean. there was nothing healthy about. everything with the stored it. was. our own how to do that i don't know how i raised those three girls like that.

but he said that my father passed away that hurt me really bad. everyone in my life that i cared about their goal but when that happened i came to skid row. i developed a real bad drug and crack cocaine and came here. and i really didn't i didn't. i thought about it. that's what i was going to do. but. that's what i wanted to tom nice when i'm saying to myself i said he had a long nap in keep doing what i'm doing is going to happen because i just knew i was a little from glen is to say enjoy it and maybe down syndrome. is very good to me you say oh he's used down here been through most turbulent times down here geos and there's a true sinister part of it is

a drug addiction crack cocaine also dictate to lifestyle of downtown where. you know one judge a small. group in compton raj or something one horse was three years old. and people force they have horses in the back yard but they've never oh i just are going to be forced to take them out no i didn't ride in the city you. know i do a challenge ride horses i knew they had like a four and i had a stand in to the old old why you like it so look what you did before i went out and they they sparred me yeah that's what i want to know too that i like the smell of eleven when they spark me awarded for. best all our horses they spark we decide what my dream would be to the ranch.

be were horses you know. just to be around smell them walk ride a baby. teach people about. the horses i believe that. i know if they get it because of the cost arrested so many people you know i love dogs. well for. you to give place to the wall of wall people up and down the whole black man you could hardly walk up and down the street cars could be a valid after everything going our everybody is either in jail or they all went to santa monica or venice hollywood of somewhere else we don't need more jails we need more mental institutions we need more doctors to come down here so the more people place now sandwiches that's what we really need we need more understanding we need the awareness that we're not told drug addicts three days. things impact our central nervous system the environment that we grow up in and that we live in

our d.n.a. basically what we're born with our genes and drugs i don't mean is the reward neurotransmitter i mean it's what seems and release is from our brain cells and when we are sexually aroused when we smell something's good we'd like to be where and. we smoke crack the brain of a schizophrenia person untreated unmedicated is a wash with don't for me more souls and for enough person it doesn't because from. the scripture frank brain cannot filter out the noise is the heat. the vibrations the other people talking to you it's all turning it once so the medications that we give people for schizophrenia reduce the don't for me

unfortunately they reduce it too much and they feel good inside sake don't get to feel pleasure anymore when. these folks wake up every morning and have to face another day being a stigmatized marginal person in the world and have to make decisions about using street drugs or using prescribed drugs or street drugs or easier to get them prescribe drugs street drugs feel better prescribe drugs don't particularly feel better in their hands everywhere is mentally ill people is always a major because we need them there it's on medication for self medicate so be it how else would one do it what else would you do i can't even get my mobile telephone i am i supposed to get my medication so get drugs suparna street before i am. try making.

new york to london. the whole world is on the hook. a father one down the end funded to hang up the coins out the link at the end of the street another one a more transparent society gets the money or the public tears become we see military and state and felice falses mobilized against people who blend into the city to mean hobbit the city the more people trust electronic devices the more defenseless the. fear that has a thousand i. find our key. the flame. the olympic spirit travels with the flame from its birthplace in

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