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Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder

Rough Sleepers

Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people

by Tracy Kidder
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  • Jan 17, 2023, 320 pages
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  • Jan 2024, 320 pages
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"Where did you get the treatment?" Jim asks.

"I bought the shit at CVS, and somebody stole a hundred dollars' worth of frigging lice removal shit, I got court tomorrow, my mother's sick in the hospital, dying, and I need to go see her but I'm not gonna go there and expose people. A lot of chicks have 'em and don't tell."

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