So proudly she came into the subway car
all who were not reading their newspapers saw
the head high and the slow tread—
coat wrinkled and her belongings in a paper bag,
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Thank you Charles. I read this several times feeling these words all different scenarios. Great work
Powerful. Dang, this is powerful. Its electricity reaches out and lashes into your soul. And even as desperate and gritty as these people and their times are, the author still etches their portraits with love