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John and Ken on Sunday. The Elsa Gundo Times has a columnist, I think we've mentioned her a few

times, Rachel Uranga. This time, her assignment was to speak to people who work on the

metro system, metro workers and ambassadors, those people, about reviving writers, writers who have

overdosed on opioids. They're not writers, they're just... They're vagrants. They're what we call loiterers.

She starts a story with walking along a rail platform, a veteran transit worker spotted a package of the opioid overdose reversing drug, Naxalone, picked it up and slipped it into his vest.

He couldn't imagine that he would use the medicine less than two hours later.

But looking back on that evening, it shouldn't have been a surprise.

The synthetic opioid fentanyl is killing about four people a day in the county.

Its reach is stretched from classrooms to Beverly Hills homes and a plague Skid Row and upended

families across the region. This paragraph is a keeper by Rachel Uranga.

Inside train stations, one of the few free indoor spaces for those living on the margins.

That was fantastic.

Living on the margins.

So this is the excuse and the explanation.

It's one of their few free indoor spaces because they live on the margins.

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