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  • - [Interviewer] Katie.

  • - Hi.

  • - [Interviewer] We're in Winnipeg, Canada.

  • You're homeless.

  • You're sleeping outside in this cold.

  • You slept outside in this cold last night?

  • - Yeah, well I didn't really sleep that much.

  • I mostly walked around.

  • - [Interviewer] It's what?

  • Got down to 40 Fahrenheit?

  • - Yeah.

  • - [Interviewer] And it's gonna be even colder.

  • - Yeah, it's hard.

  • I don't know if that's why I stay walking

  • cause it keeps me warm kind of.

  • It's better than sitting in one spot.

  • - [Interviewer] So what happened?

  • - Well, the place I was staying at before this,

  • it had caught fire from

  • an electric wire.

  • And then I had met my friend

  • and he introduced me to a bunch of people

  • who were also homeless and

  • I've just kind of been down here ever since.

  • - [Interviewer] Now you said

  • you've been in foster care or foster homes

  • since four years old.

  • - Yeah, I got taken from my dad

  • when I was four because

  • there was an issue going on and

  • he signed us over as permanent wards because

  • he figured it would give us a better lifestyle

  • than him and his

  • lifestyle.

  • Like, he was really bad into drinking

  • and he did his drugs.

  • He never did it in front of us

  • but he knew we could,

  • he wanted more for us out of everything.

  • He kinda went downhill after my mom passed away.

  • She passed away right before I was two years old.

  • And after that, a couple months later,

  • I had to be flown to Toronto for

  • emergency heart surgery

  • and that's where my dad actually caught

  • a flesh eating disease so he couldn't even work after that.

  • So he just went into a really bad depression

  • and started getting really heavy into drugs and alcohol.

  • So he couldn't take care of us.

  • - [Interviewer] How many foster homes were you in?

  • - I've been in like, lots.

  • I'm pretty sure it was like 13 different homes now.

  • And like 13 different schools.

  • I've never really stayed in a placement

  • more than a year and a half.

  • Until my very last placement.

  • She was amazing and she taught me amazing things.

  • And I couldn't be more grateful for her.

  • - [Interviewer] Now what happened?

  • Did you age out?

  • - I went on independent living for a little bit.

  • It was good.

  • I was on there for about,

  • I had two six month extensions of care

  • and then afterwards they had let me go

  • because you can't do more than two extensions.

  • And then from there on

  • I got into a relationship that wasn't very

  • good for me, I guess.

  • It was really good at the beginning but

  • things just went bad and then

  • from bad to worse.

  • It's just we were too stubborn to realize it

  • I guess at the time.

  • - [Interviewer] That's human. (laughs)

  • - Yeah.

  • - [Interviewer] So you've been outside

  • since March you told me?

  • - Yeah.

  • I stayed with some people here and there

  • at the very beginning of it.

  • After that, I just stopped staying at people's houses

  • and basically everybody that I used to know

  • stopped talking to me.

  • They turned their backs on me.

  • They started calling me down.

  • They didn't want anything to do with me anymore.

  • But lucky for me,

  • I met some great people who are out here.

  • And they've taken me in

  • and they've shown me and taught me

  • more about myself than I've ever known in my whole life.

  • - [Interviewer] We've been talking for a bit and

  • as horrible as homelessness is,

  • it changed me for the better

  • and you're 22.

  • You shouldn't be out here,

  • but you're dealing with it

  • very much

  • showing a lot of maturity.

  • - Yeah.

  • Well, there's no reason to just be angry about it.

  • It is what it is.

  • And honestly, yeah it's really hard.

  • But I really do love the moments

  • that I do have out here.

  • And I just really deep down cannot

  • even regret what happened.

  • Because regretting that would mean

  • regretting the people that I've met

  • and grown to care about.

  • - [Interviewer] So tell me about homelessness in Winnipeg.

  • - It's rough.

  • It really is rough.

  • Sometimes you meet people on their bad days.

  • And they're not the very nicest.

  • I probably cry about three times a day.

  • But I'm also a very emotional person.

  • That being said,

  • I also do have my uppers too

  • so I can't really act like a complete saint.

  • I do say and do things that

  • probably annoy a lot of people.

  • I can be very annoying.

  • I admit that.

  • At least people can run away, I can't.

  • But for most of it,

  • people are really generous and really nice.

  • I've never met so many nice people

  • that help me so much with everything on my journey here.

  • It's been actually really great.

  • Cause once you get through that angry little Winnipeg bear,

  • they're amazing people.

  • - [Interviewer] What's your future like?

  • - My future?

  • Well, honestly I don't know.

  • But I know it's going to be filled with happiness

  • no matter where I am.

  • Homeless or not.

  • As long as I've got the people that I have now,

  • I'm good.

  • - [Interviewer] Wow.

  • If you had three wishes,

  • what would they be?

  • - Three wishes?

  • Well, I'd wish that

  • probably for a Subway cookie,

  • to go to Toronto and

  • that my friends and family are safe

  • and well taken care of.

  • - [Interviewer] Well thank you very much for talking to me.

  • - You're welcome.

  • Thank you for taking your time.

  • (upbeat elevator music)

- [Interviewer] Katie.

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凱蒂是一個年輕的無家可歸的女孩,睡在加拿大溫尼伯的外面。 (Katie is a young homeless girl sleeping outside in Winnipeg, Canada.)

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