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Attorney helena bala shared a sandwich and a conversation with a homeless man;

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Since then she's talked with hundreds of anonymous people answering her craigslist ad offering to.

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Helena dea bala was an exhausted and isolated dc lobbyist, suffocating under the weight of her student loan debt, when she decided to split her lunch with a man who often panhandled near her office.

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