It’s a Hard Knock Life

I used to bump into Lydia and her partners on Broadway Street during the years 2007-2009. Big Gulp cups of liquor took the edge off life on Skid Row, and they’d move up to Broadway Street when they preferred to pass the day somewhere less violent.

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Consoling one another while talking about a fire that had destroyed most of their possessions.

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Evelyn demonstrates a stabbing they witnessed on Skid Row earlier that day.

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Lydia and another friend.