“…still poor…” (but rich in heart)

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Dori Sill has been in her new, Los Angeles Family Housing-subsidized apartment for over a month now. She’s gradually getting her things out of storage and putting the pieces of her life back together.

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Her small apartment is filling up with the vintage furniture and artifacts that were once taken for granted, back in her salad days…

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Her career and lifestyle as a professional musician now in the distant past, Dori hopes to put her arsenal of guitars and keyboards back to work… Now in her early 60s, it may be her best chance to earn a living on her own, as the aneurysm and coma which left her physically hobbled makes it a strain to even climb the stairs to her second-story apartment.

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Max, Dori’s constant canine companion during the homeless years, recently passed away, but Dori still has two large cats to keep her company.

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No longer homeless “but still poor,” Dori takes her lunch each Saturday at the Hope of Valley in Van Nuys, among dozens of others in various stages of homelessness and impoverishment.

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Is this what we want, for Gracie to be holding up a sign when she is 67?