The Shelter was on Main Street before all programs moved to Roosevelt Road in 2005.
from Pine Bluff just to see me. I didn’t know the
woman personally. She had been a resident in 2005,
just before I started. But I had spoken to her on the
phone some months ago. She is a writer and had
wanted permission to publish a piece about Our
House in her latest book.
I drove to the Travel Center and awkwardly looked for
the woman I was there to meet. A white-haired woman
in her ‘60s came over, waving at me welcomingly. I
asked if she was the person I was looking for. “Yes!
Yes,” she said, giving me a big hug.
We sat for a few minutes in my car catching up on which
staff members from her time still worked at Our House
today and where the ones who had left were now. She
told me a little bit about her life and reflected on her
time at Our House when it was on Main Street. I
apologized that I didn’t have time to give her a tour of
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