“My accordion helps with depression.” Clarence

stories behind the fog
Stories Behind The Fog
6 min readSep 19, 2019

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Photography by Fran Guijarro

I’m from Wisconsin, and all my family is still there. I’m the only outcast. That’s how they treat me, as the one that didn’t make it. My mom raised me. Well, in my opinion, she didn’t raise me at all. She gave me too much freedom, and she was really mean. She told me I’d never be anything in life. That’s why I dropped out of school, I had no motivation.

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The stories of 100 people experiencing homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area. Soon to be published in a book to support our non-profit partners.