[NEWS] In from the cold - after a hard life

From the Philadelphia Inquirer: 

His first night outside was on a bench in Logan Square. He remembers the cold of that long-ago night. He remembers feeling scared.

For the next 25 years, David Brown stayed outside.

Many of his nights were spent huddled beneath blankets at a cardboard encampment next to the former Youth Study Center on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

There were 25 souls inside the boxes. They called themselves the Survivors. The police left them alone if they were gone by 8 a.m. and did not return until 8 p.m.

David Brown adapted. He survived. He didn't drink or do drugs.