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Subject: [Leica] A piece of great news...
From: lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll Querol)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:25:31 +0100
References: <E79237C1-7AE9-462C-8FF3-55C01F01B290@frozenlight.eu>

Congratulations Nathan, I thik you have help to this.

Saludos
Lluis


El 23/12/2009, a las 17:25, Nathan Wajsman escribi?:

> You may remember that back in late August I posted these two  
> pictures of a man who had been living in a broken down car on the  
> sidewalk by the beach since May:
>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Picture-A-Day/4253606_netUM#635831932_RD2BE
> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Picture-A-Day/4253606_netUM#635832032_ctrwP
>
> I cycle past this spot several times a week, and during the months  
> since I took these pictures I have occasionally stopped by to chat  
> with him, give him some money, lights for his bicycle etc. Last week  
> we had some bad weather with cold nights (not freezing, but cold)  
> and lots of rain, and I had been concerned about him. When I cycled  
> by on Monday afternoon, he was not there but otherwise the place  
> looked normal. Today I came by and saw that his things were gone and  
> some garbage men were loading the remaining junk onto a truck to  
> take it away. I stopped to talk to them and they told me that he  
> now, finally, had got a place to live. After 6 months! I guess the  
> latest round of publicity (national TV came to do a story on him in  
> November, for a popular programme called Espa?a Directo) helped the  
> local authorities get off their collective butt.
>
> I feel very happy with the outcome and about the fact that I was  
> able to provide him some small measure of comfort during the ordeal.
>
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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