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While the above story is shared to celebrate Rashema Melson's extraordinary accomplishment, in order to not even tacitly give support to some bootstraps bullshit, please read this terrific Storify (in response to this shit) by one of my favorite Twitter pals, CreativeAspie: About Having Been Homeless in London, UK.
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