Home Sweet Homeless by Heather Kristin

I remember when my twin Heidi and I were ten years old, and we were living with Mother at the run-down Times Square Hotel. The year was 1984 and we had dinner the night before at the soup kitchen on Forty-Sixth Street. My family was excited to call the warm hotel room our home for a couple days. It was one room with a queen sized bed, paid for by New York State’s emergency fund.

It wasn’t really a surprise that my family got evicted from 1073 First Avenue. Mother had not paid Read more