Lisa I love you

I spent some time in a homeless shelter, there I met Lisa who I started spending time hanging around with. Lisa had been homeless for six years. She kept all her belongings in a grocery cart and the shelter let her keep the cart there. She told me a story about how she got be homeless. Her boss where she was working found out that she was sole provider for herself and got her fired just because he thought it would be funny. Lisa stated that she wasn’t in contact with her family.

I liked Lisa a lot. One night she had breathing problems, and was taken to the hospital. Lisa had no other person to call a friend, she stayed to herself. I like Lisa a lot, and due to my proclivity for the downtrodden, I went up to see Lisa in the hospital. One day I brought her clothes, and her bags on another day. She was to have a follow-up visit with a doctor once she left the hospital. However, Lisa had no money, no insurance, and no way to get to the doctor’s.

After the shelter closed on April 1, Lisa went to live under a bridge. Several other homeless people followed her. The bridge was next to police station. Several fights broke out among the other homeless people, and the police eventually ran off everyone who was living under the bridge. At this time, I was working two jobs and living in my car. One job was working in another state (Winchester, Virginia). After work, I would drive to the bridge where Lisa was staying and would give her money for food. I had it, she didn’t, and because of the way I feel about her I couldn’t just let her starve.

One time when I went to the bridge where Lisa was staying, I asked her if she wanted to go on a date to a fast food restaurant just up the street from where she was staying. Lisa stated that the last time she left her belongings unattended she ended up getting in trouble.