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[NEWS] Hundreds remember Philadelphians who died with no place to live

From WHYY

Hundreds gathered at a candlelight vigil Thursday night to remember more than 250 homeless people who died this year.

Though she’s off the streets now, 20-year-old Tori Stoddart says she inherited homelessness- and then passed it on to her daughter as an infant.

“I’ve been homeless, my mom, she’s been homeless, and my grandma she’s been homeless. It’s just something that runs in my family. I don’t want it to but that’s the system that we live in,” she said.

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