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After 10 years of living outdoors, Irene "Smokie" McGee finally got a temporary roof over her head, when fellow local Elvis Summers generously built her a small house on wheels.
"I feel marvelous," McGee, 60, of Los Angeles, said. "You can't even explain how I feel. I'm on my way to a different life. I want to get my own place and all of that. He's my guardian angel.
"He's one in a million."
McGee told ABC News that she has been living on the streets since her husband died in 2004 and she didn't have the money to keep the home she once had.
Summers, 38, became friends with McGee after she began asking him to donate his recyclables for her to cash in.
"I started asking more questions about her to see what her story was," he said. "I learned she didnt have anything, not even a cardboard box. She was literally sleeping in the dirt and I just wanted to make her a place where she could feel comfortable and at least get a good night's sleep.
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MineralMan
(146,317 posts)"I could never live in a place that small."
Good for this kind man!
Iggo
(47,558 posts)When I was living on the street, I'd've killed for a house like that.
Well, not killed. But I definitely would've fought somebody for it!
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)says a great deal about our society. Our solution is to send them somewhere else, in most cases, using harrassment and jail. Or we just let them die.
This man built a practical shelter that was inexpensive, dry, and can be locked by its user. A wonderful thing for him to do.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Wonder if it could be rolled out.