Getting Back On Her Feet
CNN
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Officer Zimmerman’s heart broke when he heard Ebony’s story. He knew he had to help her. He called the director of a family homeless shelter, whom he had met recently. “I called her up and said, ‘Listen I’ve got a mother and a daughter who need somewhere to sleep,’” he recalls.
“And she goes, ‘Yeah, I have some room.’ And if you know anything about shelters in the middle of the winter, there’s nothing available, and she had something available. I couldn’t believe it.” And neither could Ebony.
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