The woman next to me is trying to sleep, but keeps coughing and turning her head. Another woman is sitting on her cot, playing cards depicting Chippendale characters. She said she met one at a bar once. She told me that homeless residents at the Shelter don't have rights. She said she could take them to court because of it.
Women keep drifting in, setting up cots and gradually falling to sleep.
One woman has two garbage bags full of her clothes and things. One woman is praying beside her cot. I was very nervous to come today. It's one thing to write and talk to people about living at the Shelter, but the prospect of actually staying here myself terrified me. I have been here a million times, but when I got out of the car this evening and went into the Shelter, I was scared to death.