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For that moment it is their only possessions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t want them in our neighbourhoods. They bring crime and even fear to our lives, break infrastructure, litter without a thought to the consequences of all this to the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then one morning you see them sitting on heaps of wet and dirty bundles of clothes, blankets and broken pieces of old furniture in a dark subway underneath the railway line, amid the overwhelming stench of urine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sad and scared look on their faces passes you by as your only thoughts are on what a disgusting-looking lot they are, and you quickly turn away from the sight of them because they not only revolt you, but also frighten you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a nice warm cup of tea in your hand in the safety of your clean and comfortable home you start thinking of what you just saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are those vagrants where they are? How did it happen to them? How can it be human, let alone normal? 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