Photo © Jeff Schonberg
6. Felix recuperates: After
being hit by a Dominoes pizza truck and undergoing two surgeries at the
county hospital, Felix was released with a seven-day hotel voucher. He
sold it for half a gram of heroin and returned to his old spot. Following
the doctor’s orders to keep his leg elevated during his recovery, he used
the beams of the underpass as traction. He needed to keep this secret,
for fear of the Dominoes' attorneys discovering that he could, no matter
how painful, climb the hill to get to this spot.
His mother lives just
up the street, but he would not go there. "She knows I'm a dopefiend,
but thinks I'm living in a hotel trying to get into a program. If she
found out I was homeless, it would kill her. I love my mother more than
anyone in this world. I wouldn't ever want to hurt her."
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