BIG SUPPORT!!! He lived on the same San Paulo street corner for 18 years. The black plastic bags wrapped around him and long tangled hair and beard protected him from the elements. Atop a small stool, this 75-year-old man could be seen every day, hunched over and writing. Though homeless for 34 years, Raimundo (Portuguese for Raymond) was very well-read and loved to read. In April 2011, he was befriended by a young woman named Shalla Monteiro, who was impressed by his poetry and wanted to help him realize his dream of publishing a book of his mini-pages, as he calls them. She created a Facebook Page to feature the writings of Raimundo Arruda Sobrinho, who signed every poem with a nickname he gave himself, The Conditioned. - Jim Anderson
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 20:38:24 +0000
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