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From a stable job to a tent: A waiter's homeless struggle

by Associated Press
| September 13, 2020 12:03 AM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jeff Lello has never been rich, but the 42-year-old could pocket $100 cash most weekend nights at the steakhouse chain where he waited tables. He always had enough money for groceries, his car and the modest Orlando apartment he rented with roommates.

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