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    By E. Ann McIntyre

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    A homeless man wanders into Vatican City in search of food and shelter. Not everyone is charitable. He makes a couple of friends, a fellow street person by the name of John and Papa, who embraces him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherE. Ann McIntyre
    Release dateDec 31, 2018
    ISBN9780988114456
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    E. Ann McIntyre

    Catholic Christian author whose writing focuses on the men and women of the Gospels. Ann writes of the personal conversion her characters experience in their relationship with Jesus (Yeshua). .

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      Copyright 2015

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      The sandaled feet splashed through the puddles on the cobblestones of St. Peter’s Square. Head held high, their owner walked with determination and paid no attention to the pointed remarks he heard directed at him from well-dressed tourists. He was one of many homeless men and women who made their way to the showers under the Bernini’s colonnade. Today he was hoping for a shower and a haircut.

      The other homeless in the area called him Yes, because they couldn’t pronounce his name. Yes didn’t mind. He rather like being called Yes. Better than being called ‘No.’ He smiled at the thought. Some of his new friends just called him Si, a real Italian name they agreed.

      Yes had been in Rome a few weeks, he was a refugee from his homeland in the Middle East. Like many others, he arrived by boat. Unlike some of the boat people, he survived. That, it turned out, was the easy part. Trying to live through the cold, damp, Roman winter and spring was tough on even the hardiest of men.

      Yes coughed as he stood in line with the others. His cold had gotten worse over the last few

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