DC Homeless Couple Gets Married
Ran across a great article in the Washington Post on a homeless couple in DC who wed this past Saturday with the help of a church congregation in Georgetown.
Their Washington is a circuit of breakfasts from meal trucks, alleys and building vestibules that provide a few hours of shelter before men in uniforms come along, and hiding places where they try to keep cherished belongings from National Park Service cleaning crews. It doesn’t always work: A few weeks ago, all of Dante and Nhiahni’s clothing and documents vanished in a park cleanup.
When they were first together, Dante and Nhiahni rode city buses from 11 p.m. to 8 a.m. each night, back and forth, trying to stay warm, sleeping as best they could while sitting up straight. “The bus drivers would never say anything as long as we sit up,” Nhiahni says. But she got tired of never being able to lie down, so they found a park, near Union Station, then another, on E Street NW. The city’s shelters were out of the question: Both of them had been jumped, robbed and harassed there.
Please check out the full article here. It is definitely worth the read.
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