Acts of Kindness, One Cup at a Time

“Whatever the homeless did to become homeless,” he said, “doesn’t mean they deserve to be cold.”

He says he was driven to this weekly act of kindness by the crushing sadness he experienced: His son Travis, 32, was homeless when he died of a drug overdose in Maine in 2016.

“I tried, he tried,” Kelleher said of the back-and-forth struggle between parent and child familiar to anyone who has lived it. “I knew I was going to get that call, and I did. My life will never be the same, but I’m the same as everyone else who’s had to deal with this.”

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