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Mean street, mean city?

“There are a lot of people who don’t get anything for Christmas. This is not about recognition or accolades, it’s about helping other people.”

White has a deep understanding of how tough it is in the skids. When her marriage ended, she found herself on the hardscrabble streets, trying to make ends meet.

“I used to live in Lynn Valley, and I’d drive right by here every day. If you’d have told me I’d be living down here one day, I’d say, ‘You’re out of your mind.’”

Fifteen years of gritty living behind her now, White considers the curse of life on the streets to be a blessing.

“Sometimes I say, ‘God, what am I doing here?’ I must have done something really bad in my past life. But I’ve learned so much about life and other people – it’s turned out to be a blessing.”

- Life on mean streets a ‘blessing,’ says secret Santa, Canada.com, November 21, 2017.

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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.