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Susan Scott is a freelance writer who worked for many years at the Calgary Herald. While writing this book, she interviewed more than 60 women facing homelessness across Canada. Part of her agreement with these women was to tell their stories in the way they would want to have them told.

All Our Sisters is essential reading for anyone who wants to know about the conditions facing homeless women today.

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Sad Hearts Dressed In Old Clothes: Hannah’s Letter to the Homeless

(message submitted to Irked Magazine — whole letter a quote from Hannah)

Hello to all my friends from around the world who are lost, alone, hungry and homeless.

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*February 2006: For the past five months I have been living alone in a car at the edge of the woods—jobless and homeless and totally unable to find a way out of it. I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t scream loudly enough. All I can do is write. So here I am laying down tracks…hopefully the start of an online paper trail out of here.

The cold war

(from the author of Abandoned: The True Story of a Little Girl Who Didn’t Belong)

by Anya Peters

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