Tony bent over to retrieve the folded-up scrap of paper from the sidewalk. His Carol had noticed it there and asked him to help. She preferred a tidy living space and Tony was happiest when Carol was pleased.
They’d come far together. Both born in the same small town in Tennessee, they were childhood sweethearts who became adult lovers, then estranged divorcées, then reunited friends and now a functioning family here on the downtown streets in Portland, Oregon.
“It’s a ten dollar bill!” Tony exclaims. “I love this city!”
Carol smiled as she pulled her sleep sack out of her push cart and tossed it onto the concrete. For her, It wasn’t just Portland … it was the whole country. This land has money just blowing in the wind , just there for the taking .
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