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Their friend was killed, then their home was demolished: Inside a Memphis homeless encampment sweep

As the morning sun peeked above the blue roof of the nearby 24-hour IHOP on Sept. 30, a somber parade of construction vehicles and county dump trucks crawled across an empty field towards the treeline.  Two painted purple stones and a sprig of fake flowers marked the entrance to the woods. Beyond them, a well-worn […]

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