Nickels and dimes

She did'nt utter a single word, she only sat there organizing her coins into neat little piles. But her body language and the single word "peng" written on the sidewalk in front of her shouted out to me "give me a coin (peng)"... so i gave her what i had in my pockets, which happened to be 27 Swedish kronor, she immediately started reorganizing her pile of coins and i snapped off a frame and went on to work.

I later saw this woman sitting in a staircase and she was not looking to peppy, and that was probably my fault, but at least she did not steal to many things to afford her daily fix...

We have a few homeless people here in Stockholm who you see every day, you can see them doing their daily routine and you can almost set the clock after their punctuality. We don't have the same quantity of outcasts as in S.F or any other large city, but we do have a problem here as well and you can see that there are a few new outcasts, probably victims of the financially unstable climate in Europe.

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