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I dont know if growing up, if everybody had a homeless person that lived in thier town, but I did and Ive watched his life transform back and forth from good to bad for the past 25 years. When I was 16 years old, I remember giving him and his dog free pizza from the pizza place that I worked at during my high school years. They use to call him the Bonita bum, because we live in the town of Bonita. Over the years he’s lived every where from living under the bridge at our golf course to making a hut in the bamboo patch, to now living in someone’s back yard shed. Bonita still has alot of big yards and forrest areas which is good for him.

He said that he use to have a really bad heroin and cocaine habit, but now only drinks beer, which he was buying at ten this morning. I talked to him in front of our local town liquor store, which has been there forever. Everybody in Bonita knows him and the local mom and pop stores hire him to do small jobs to help him out.