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Slight, dark-skinned Cristiano is one of the lucky ones. After seven years on the streets, he moved to a shelter run by the Sao Martinho Aid Society. His room is small but clean. There is a television in the hall and food downstairs in the kitchen. The shelter kids work odd jobs during the day and go to school at night...
...coping strategy: "Every surface is covered with bowls of water. And we flush the toilets with rainwater we keep in the bathtub." Doug Riggs, on vacation from his job as a social worker in Marshalltown, drove 75 miles into Des Moines to help out and found himself managing a shelter at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church. But at week's end only 25 flooded-out people had arrived; many more had found family, friends or neighbors to take them...
...parental rights were terminated a few weeks afterward; the abandoned baby was placed for adoption. A few months later, Pellegrino reappeared and sued to regain custody, which would mean taking the baby out of a secure home and sending her to live with her mother in a homeless shelter. Late last year the state supreme court granted Pellegrino custody, evoking an enormous public outcry. "The best interests of the child were totally ignored," says state mental-health commissioner Dr. Albert Jay Solnit. "What was worshipped was the technicality of law and the mystique of blood ties...
...been a Watergate or there's been something else, is this curious mixture that includes the real zealots who believe they can repair the inadequacies of the democratic system by doing unofficial things. They think they're the heroes. Then you see the total misfits who need to take shelter in secret rooms and who actually get off being secretive...
While Moreno insists that Alysse is a character, others say the pseudonym is nothing more than a protection device, allowing Moreno to express her radical views under a shelter of anonymity not granted to other Law Record writers who broach controversial topics...