Faces of Homelessness: The Resourceful John Galvin

Galvin, 48, makes the best of a bad situation.

This is the second in a four-part series on homelessness in Fairfax County. The first part, A Night at the Shelter, ran Monday, March 12. Watch a video of Patch's interview with John Galvin here. Links to additional parts of this series are at the bottom of this article. John Galvin has his morning routine down pat. First he hits the 7-Eleven, where he buys coffee. He smokes a few cigarettes. Then he goes to McDonald’s, where he shaves and brushes his teeth in the bathroom. Next, it’s breakfast time. He retrieves eggs and cheese from his van, then goes back to the 7-Eleven, where he adds milk from the containers the store leaves out for coffee to his egg and cheese mixture. “I’ll mix it up and make what I call ‘the 7-Eleven breakfast kit…

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Rachel Leonard

11:47 am on Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Thanks for the update!   more ›