The outpouring of support for an elderly flower vendor in South Los Angeles will help him return to Mexico to reunite with his family, he said.
Eighty-two-year-old street vendor Edmundo, who declined to share his last name, said flowers have always been part of his life. It became the source of his income after he crossed into the U.S. by himself more than 50 years ago to establish a living and provide for his family in Mexico.
“This is how I pay the rent,” he said in Spanish…