Survival is not a concept most of us operating within the confines of everyday society even consider. We live in a world where we can feed ourselves with food stocked in stores, drink water from the tap, and keep ourselves warm when night falls. We know we will never run out of toilet paper or toothpaste. “Survival” may mean enduring a soporific business meeting or emerging from gridlock traffic. But for the kids we pass every day on the street, it is their day-to-day. We can live, but they can only survive. And we hate them for it. We criminalize their existence, making it illegal for them to
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