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Roots
The first apartment hadn't worked. That was the honest version of what happened to Marcus. He'd been placed in a bachelor unit in North York after eight months at a men's shelter, and he'd wanted it to work—badly, consciously, with the…
Five Keys
The day Amara got the keys to the apartment, she cried in the parking lot of the building before she could make herself go in. Three years. That's how long she and her kids had been moving. Between shelters, a cousin's couch, two different…
The Table That Found Its Family
Margaret, 71 — Donor, Leaside I bought that table in 1987 at an antiques market on Queen Street West. A Saturday in October, cold enough for a coat but not yet for gloves. It was solid maple, probably 1940s. Four legs, two leaves that…