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 She now has housing!!!!! Abstract Afrofuturist painter: Picassa   Picassa: Summer 2014 Photo by Delores Fisher one of my favorite photos of her Ten years ago, early morning strolls along San Diego pier exposed an often shadow-population of the un-housed who slept while others sat awake to watch over them and to chase away predatory night dwellers who slept during the day so they could prey on the weak after midnight while seeming to casually wander the pier and San Diego's downtown city streets. For the vulnerable on side streets nights were and still are very long all year.                  Sidewalk tent community Photo by Delores Fisher, blogger 2023 Picassa and I met one early fairly sunny San Diego California morning while I was taking a stroll to clear my mind about a recent 2014 blog post. I felt as if something was shifting. I felt unsettled as I walked near the now defunct Anthony's Fish Grotto. A chestnut brown face was looking up at me. She smiled. Spread out in fro