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It’s becoming the norm when yet another multimillion-view YouTube video, posted by some homeless helper, takes an ugly turn. I originally viewed this wonderful story of heroism and redemption about 10 months ago. Today, the same video was posted again on social media, but this time with dozens of negative comments. This is when I learned that the woman who “helped” a homeless man by raising gobs of money through “Go Fund Me” had apparently kept most of it. Dang. She said he blew the money on drugs. Only they know the truth. This story reminds me of the saying, “When the blind lead the blind, they both fall in the ditch.” -J.C. More and more of these homeless stories end like this. Mostly because it’s math. A + B = C. Of course the equation for freeing a person from homelessness is also math. I learned the first equation in 3rd…

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