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Lynn Porter Real Estate Editor |
September 7, 2006
Longtime Seattle construction company owner Joe McKinstry regularly buys the weekly newspaper Real Change from its vendors, most of whom are homeless. He usually chats with the sellers and purchases a few extra copies to give back to them to resell.
These exchanges give him some insight into their lives, but it's a different thing to walk in their shoes — and wear their tattered clothes and carry the blankets needed to keep warm.
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