Source: Rousseau, Ann "Shopping Bag Ladies"

• tiredsome
• swollen ankles
• ulcerated feet
• old
• torn clothes
• pushes a shopping cart full of belongings or things of value to them
• alcoholics

• lonely
• afraid
• impoverished
• sick
• mentally ill
• unskilled

     *Most women live on the street not by preference or personal destiny, but because they dread ending their lives in institutions and are too poor or otherwise hanicapped to obtain safe housing.
     *Majority of women end up on the streets due to spouse abuse.
 

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