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Recovering Addict Fights Homelessness in N.Y.

December 21st, 2007    Posted by: Dr. Dobson



A night of living on the street helped motivate recovering addict Felix Middleton to help out some fellow New Yorkers by using his fashion skills to make sleeping bags for the homeless, the New York Times reported Dec. 3.

Middleton, a Fashion Institute of Technology graduate who is receiving addiction treatment at Phoenix House, worked with the rehabilitation program to get a sewing machine and stitch old comforters into 30 sleeping bags, which he recently handed out to homeless people on the streets.

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