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00:00Why would families of homeless people allow them to be homeless?
00:02Here's the brutal truth I learned.
00:03When we spotted my cousin Mike on the local news, sleeping under a bridge,
00:06our whole family rushed to help.
00:07My sister immediately offered him her spare room, thinking this would solve everything.
00:11We were wrong.
00:11For two weeks, Mike had everything.
00:13Warm bed, hot meals, clean clothes.
00:14My sister even lined up three easy jobs where he'd start at $18 an hour.
00:18But he skipped every interview.
00:19I'm not built for that life, he'd say, spending all day sleeping and watching TV.
00:22We even offered to let him start by working just three days a week,
00:25thinking maybe full-time was too much.
00:26He still refused.
00:27Working is for suckers, he told my sister while eating the dinner she cooked.
00:30The breaking point came when my sister caught him selling the new phone she bought him.
00:32I like my freedom, he said.
00:33A homeless charity put him in a fully furnished apartment next,
00:36paying six months' rent up front.
00:37Within a week, he abandoned it all.
00:38Now we see him sometimes panhandling downtown.
00:40People ask why we let him be homeless.
00:42Truth is, you can't force someone to want a normal life.
00:44We offered him everything.
00:45Jobs, home, support.
00:46But he chose this.
00:47Some people would rather live with no responsibilities than work for a living.
00:50Last week, he waved at me from his usual spot.
00:52He's still there, cardboard sign in hand, refusing every offer of real help.
00:55Sometimes the hardest truth is accepting that you can't help someone who doesn't want to help themselves.