Modesto
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Modesto. The actual name of this piece is Modesto: Poverty, Meth, Discontentment, Death.
I took a photo in 2012 when I was downtown at 3 am one night. I think I was just coming home from traveling somewhere. Despite being tired, I stopped across the street and decided to photograph the sign for myself.
At the bus stop, there were two people sitting on the bench. One had a sleeping bag wrapped around them, and the other was just sitting there.
Here’s the original sign in the day time in Modesto. I found each and every one of its claims to be wholly false for the 20 years I was stuck there off and on between going to college and trying to escape:
