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Subject: [Leica] the best dressed homeless guy i know ....
From: jon.stanton at comcast.net (jon.stanton@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Oct 27 21:41:56 2006

Omar needs a meeting! 

  But for Grace that could be me


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From: "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
> Omar is the best dressed homeless guy I know. I've been photographing him 
> off 
> and on for about two years now. He's very gregarious and always seems to 
> have 
> something going on, and has a cult following among college students and 
> local 
> residents. He can put on a very mean drunk and is one of the very few 
> people 
> I've ever seen drunk at 6:50 in the morning when I'm on my way into work, 
> waving 
> the last beer of a six pack and walking a dog that nobody seems to know 
> the 
> owner of. But now when he sees me he yells across the street "hey! take a 
> picture! i got a new hat!" -- or something like that. I've probably taken 
> five 
> or six hundred photos of him. This is last wednesday. "I don't want to 
> die," he 
> told me, "I love life too much."
>  
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/omar/index.html
>  
>  
> 
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