I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and there are some homeless people in the downtown, especially the University area. I used to1 give a lot of money to the homeless, feeling sorry for their misfortune2. But as time passed, I fell into a victim to many of the circumstances3 of a homeless person. After I was divorced from my husband, I became a single mom with no home, a huge debt, and hardly any income. As a result, I became very mean and stopped giving to the people on the side of the road.
Through my working hard, things started to change for me. I became responsible enough to have a home with a backyard for my daughter, and plenty of food, and I started to pull myself out of debt. One day we saw a homeless person with the