Not Hopeless

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"From sleeping on the streets to Wall Street
By Taylor Gandossy
CNN

(CNN) -- He is now rich several times over, but Christopher Gardner once walked San Francisco's streets homeless, pushing his toddler son and their belongings in a stroller.

It wasn't that Gardner didn't have a job. He did; in 1982, he was in a stockbroker trainee program, with a $1,000 a month stipend. But he also was a single father trying to pay for diapers, day care and food for two. And the rooming house where he was living when his girlfriend brought him his young son, well, it didn't let kids stay there.

As he once said, he was homeless, but not hopeless. . ."