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Beverly Nowling, sitting in a wheelchair outside the ART Transit Station on Coxe Avenue last week, recounted her decades of homelessness – couch surfing with friends and family, sleeping outside or in her car.
That life ended nearly five years ago, when she moved into an apartment in the Emma neighborhood paid for by Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina and a share of her monthly Social Security disability checks…