For five hours the lull of the subway cart rocked his tired soul to sleep.

He rode the line front to back before getting off at 42 St-Bryant Park Station. The cold park bench was the closest thing he could find to a bed and his coat became the only barrier between his body and the biting winter wind.

With no money and an incomplete college education, Smith spent eight months on New York City streets during the height of the pandemic.

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