Homeless, Shoeless, Even Nameless

When the police brought Jane to 3East, the soles of her feet were blistered. Young and pretty beneath a layer of urban grime, she had been picked up for wandering barefoot around Portland, Ore., on a 90-degree August afternoon. She wouldn’t give her name and carried no identification, but went willingly with the young officer.

Publication Date: 
2010
Location: 
Portland, Oregon, USA