Nancy Adams grew comfortable sharing her Compton townhome during the COVID-19 pandemic when she rented spare bedrooms to traveling nurses.
Still, it was a long leap of faith to open her home to her current house guest — a paroled murderer.
Adams, 72, had retired from a career in banking but still relishes her backup job, tending bar at Crypto.com Arena.
“I try to keep it exciting,” she said. “What’s the point of waking up?”
But it was something deeper — a mixture of Christian faith, a familial experience with incarceration, a touch of loneliness — that drew her to the post on social media seeking homes for former inmates.
“The thought of what I had read wouldn’t leave me alone.”