March 19, 2015
Nellie Jane Downing sits in her apartment with the photo of the George Washington Bridge in background; she says that bridge is like her journey across the divide between homelessness on one side and sobriety and a home of her own on the other.
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A Homeless Mother Finds a Home in Arlington
“Your past is not your future.”
Nellie Jane Downing welcomes her guest into a neat, light filled apartment in South Arlington. Behind her on the wall is a photograph of New York City’s George Washington Bridge. “That bridge,” she said, “is my story. Walking from one side to the other, making that journey. And those lights on the bridge are the people who inspired me to get across.”
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