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Down and Out in Atlantic City31 December 2002ATLANTIC CITY - The idea of using public funds to help broke gamblers get home seems ill-advised - if people gamble their last pennies away, common sense says they alone should deal with the consequences. But only in a talk with someone like Ray Heywood does it become clear that nothing is quite so clear here in Atlantic City. His words slowed by a stroke, Heywood sits on a curb in front of the 7-Eleven on Pacific Avenue, interrupting himself only to ask a passer-by for change. The 42-year-old South Carolina transplant said he came here to work and gamble in 1982. But he said he never did learn how to walk away from the craps table. He also did a lot of drugs and lost his job as a casino waiter before ending up homeless. He blames only himself. "I came to Atlantic City, but I never could get out," he says of his life on the streets. To read the rest of this story please click here |