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'My Own Father Was Homeless, Too'

6:00 AM PDT 7/24/2012 by Brett Ratner

Brett Ratner, the director, board member of Chrysalis, an L.A. nonprofit that helps the homeless find work, photographs a few of its clients -- and writes about his firsthand experience with why it matters

Miami Beach -- that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother -- a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate -- my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

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