A lifeline in Hollywood for young homeless people [1]

By Nita Lelyveld, Los Angeles Times November 22, 2012

Samantha and M.J. are homeless on the streets of Hollywood and she is pregnant with her fifth child. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times / November 21, 2012)

My Friend's Place offers food, clothes, clean underwear and socks, toilet paper, toiletries and hot showers. It also nurtures dreams of a better life.

Give thanks for the nearly new Nikes, left abandoned beneath the 101 Freeway overpass. They were just M.J.'s size. He had needed shoes, but had no money to buy them.

Give thanks for the tote bag, holding the Vienna sausages that Sam hands M.J. on Hollywood Boulevard. Sam is 4 1/2 months pregnant with her fifth child — their third together — and by April, when the baby is due, she and M.J. , both 26, hope to have a roof over their heads.

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