Eddie has been homeless in Miami for more than 30 years. You can hear the weight of that time in his voice. You can see it in the way his eyes shift, searching for safety that isn’t there. Trauma accumulates. So does exhaustion. So does the sense of being forgotten.
He grew up in the child welfare system—foster care, group homes, orphanages. When he aged out, there was nowhere to go and no one to catch him. Without support, guidance, or resources, he was pushed straight into adulthood with nothing but the survival skills he learned as a child…