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Down and out in Harvard Square: Warm weather brings return of homeless ‘travelers’

Tom Benner
Spare Change News

Maxine Brandeis came to Harvard Square for the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks — because that's where the money is.

“The police are more tolerant of panhandling here than in other places we’ve been,” said Brandeis, 21, who is spending a few weeks in the Square with her 25-year-old husband and their four dogs, raising money for a trip that will take them from their home in Maine to Virginia.

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