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There's a great hollowness of spirit when you learn that a 75-year-old homeless woman you know and like is dying of pancreatic cancer; and a certain percentage of American would categorize her as natural selection in action. Pancreatic is a swift and cruel killer -- it's what finally did in Patrick Swayze. But she isn't chaff to be separated, and isn't that so easy to say when you think you're the wheat? She's an African American woman who was born in the 30's, went to college and post-grad, and founded a nonprofit that assisted abused African American mothers.
I don't know why Mrs. Kidd* is sleeping under a tarp, upright in a wheelchair at the Occupy San Francisco permanent live/work camp, but she is living out her days in sickness and pain, and without dignity.
So.
After more than a week of visiting the Occupy San Francisco camp, stories like these are wearing on my soul, so I was elated to see that the medical tent run by the National Association of Nurses was erected today at 9 am.
[Read more below the cut: "We hope everyone visits us."]
