Call me Quixote

by Genta Sebastian
Originally written and published on Feb. 16, 2005 about events that took place on Feb. 16, 2004

I looked up from my personal puddle and down the line of huddled figures trying to find shelter under umbrellas and blankets from the frigid San Francisco storm. Strangers had come by earlier, but when they left, so did the last of the hot coffee. It was four in the morning of Monday, February 16, 2004, and I was camped in a borrowed lawn chair under two sodden umbrellas, waiti...