Carol, i was 20 years old when this happened. And our homeless friends just wrote me off. Theythought it was a teen age runaway. I asked a lot of questions, but more so came from a place of just ignorance. While i was out therea it was incredibly scary, especially being a single woman on the street. Cause you were there at night. The first two and a half days, i didn't sleep until i found a place to actually sleep. So it was really great in theory, until it gets dark and downtown is completely deserted, and's it's just you standing there with a back pack and no plan. And that's what it becomes completely real to