70-year-old Robert Fox already knew where he wanted to spend his Christmas —where his daughter is. He has a problem, though: he doesn’t know how any of that could happen.
As he sat down on a bench in downtown Washington’s Franklin Square, he imagined that he would be welcomed by his daughter with a hug and a kiss. Christmas was then less than 48 hours away.
His daughter lived 61 miles south, in a small town just outside Fredericksburg, Va. He has a cellphone but can’t afford to pay for service. He didn’t know his daughter’s number or even the number of anyone who did. He hadn’t seen her since a relative’s funeral five, maybe six years ago, and they hadn’t talked in four. He didn’t own a car, and in his pocket was all the money he had left in the world: 62 cents.
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Fox figured he should take a Greyhound bus from Union Station to Fredericksburg, where he planned to call her.
A bus ticket, however, costs $27. Will he be able to find that much money?
Find out more about his story over at The Washington Post.
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