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Nov222010

The Awesome People Series, Entry 4: Dave Talley, Homeless Hero

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Dave Talley is a homeless man in Arizona who found a backpack the other day. Inside was $3,300 and a laptop. Three grand and a laptop can take a homeless guy a long way. Talley had just spent the last of his cash on a bike, and so Talley took the backpack.

Oh, wait, that's not right.

Talley took it to Stephen Sparks, who runs a Tempe, AZ homeless shelter. Sparks tracked down the backpack's owner--found a resume on a flash drive in the pack--and returned it.

Listen to the loudest people out there, and you think the world's going to up and explode any second, things are so bad.

Things aren't really that bad.

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