In my most recent post, I mentioned an encounter with a (likely) panhandler. In response, a reader asked whether I gave him any money, a detail I skipped over as not germane to the post. The quick answer is no, I didn’t. The reasons why I usually don’t give money in those situations got me thinking about events experienced in the 1970’s, growing up in C…
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