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… “Nobody responded the way they did to this first story about Nathaniel,” Lopez said. “They saw this as a ‘there but for the grace of God’ story … People believe in second chances and they think this might be his.”
Readers felt invested in Ayers’s life and the possibility of treatment. Instruments became a frequent delivery to Lopez’s office.
“People had gone into closets, spare bedrooms, attics, dusted off instruments because they wanted Nathaniel Anthony Ayers to get a second chance … They sent those two missing strings.”
Lopez, too, became invested in trying to help Ayers. He spent a night with him on Skid Row, a dumping ground for Los Angeles’s homeless, littered with abandoned war veterans, people in wheelchairs, drug gangs and prostitutes living and working in Porta-Potties.
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