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Barnes also connected him with those who could find him a home.
"This is my distant family I see every day and he needed help, so I felt like I had to help him. I couldn't go home to my family knowing he had nowhere to go at night, so I had a special friend who I had to call on for help and he was able to do that for us,” she said.
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Milwaukee County Transit System honored her acts of kindness. “Natalie demonstrated what we all need to do to fight homelessness.”
The man is now in a safe place and working with an agency to obtain permanent housing.