Student illustrates plight of homeless high schoolers
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December 18, 2016
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Destine Patterson fiddled with her phone while the TV played inside the motel room, her home of about 24 hours. Her great-aunt Effie Simpson rubbed her hands together, trying to bring warmth to them. After six months of living in a shed in Black Mountain, she still hadn't warmed up.
The motel room in east Asheville on Nov. 22 was overly warm, with a patch of sunlight pouring in through a window half-covered by blinds. Destine, 16, was lying in bed in a tank top, propped up against the headboard, explaining that this was the sixth, maybe seventh, place she'd lived in the...
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