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James Flavy Coy Brown,48, carries a bag of items to the bathroom to shave at the Home Sweet Home boarding home where he now lives in Sacramento with very little belongings. The owner Joy Ubungen is allowing him to live there until he can get his social security check sorted out. He arrived after a harrowing journey from a mental hospital in Las Vegas to the unfamiliar streets of Sacramento. He was released from a Nevada state psychiatric hospital in February with only three days medication and a one way bus ticket to Sacramento where he knew no one. -
James Flavy Coy Brown,48, says he suffers with an injured hip and hopes his daughter Shotzy Faith Harrison will be able to get him a cane with three prongs so he can walk longer distances. He now lives at a boarding home in Sacramento after a harrowing journey from a mental hospital in Las Vegas to the unfamiliar streets of Sacramento. -
James Flavy Coy Brown, left, begs Home Sweet Home boarding house owner Joy Ubungen, right, for more sugar in his cereal. "I'm the first one up in the morning so I can have one on one conversation with Mrs. Joy," said Brown. He now lives there after a harrowing journey from a mental hospital in Las Vegas to the unfamiliar streets of Sacramento. He was released from a Nevada state psychiatric hospital in February with only three days medication and a one way bus ticket to Sacramento where he knew no one. -
After living on the streets James Flavy Coy Brown, 48, drinks milk out of a bowl of cereal. He survived by dumpster diving behind various restaurants. "I was starving and I don't consider that stealing since they already threw it away," said Brown. He was released from a Nevada state psychiatric hospital in February with only three days medication and a one way bus ticket to Sacramento where he knew no one. -
James Flavy Coy Brown, 48, is addicted to smoking his pipe and consistently asks over and over for more tobacco as he waits for his morning medicine to be delivered. He now lives at the Home Sweet Home boarding house in Sacramento after a harrowing journey from a mental hospital in Las Vegas to the unfamiliar streets of Sacramento. He was released from a Nevada state psychiatric hospital in February with only three days medication and a one way bus ticket to Sacramento where he knew no one. -
James Flavy Coy Brown, 48, displays his open mouth to show that he swallowed all his medication that is delivered daily to Home Sweet Home, a boarding home where he now lives. On the counter is a signed paper that he received his medication. -
James Flavy Coy Brown, 48, chats with his daughter Shotzy Faith Harrison, 25, who lives in North Carolina. She said she purchased plane tickets to take him home to live with her family April 12. He now lives at a boarding home in Sacramento after a harrowing journey from a mental hospital in Las Vegas to the unfamiliar streets of Sacramento. In the boarding home are strict rules for the former homeless psychiatric patient. -
Joy Ubungen,left, says she doesn't allow hugging with her clients but made an exception after James Flavy Coy Brown,right, told her the great news that his daughter Shotzy Faith Harrison, 25, agreed to take him to live with her family in North Carolina. She and her husband have two small children. Brown was released from a Nevada state psychiatric hospital in February with only three days medication and a one way bus ticket to Sacramento where he knew no one. He was celebrating his future reunion with his daughter who he last saw in 2010. Recently, Ubungen took him into her boarding home although he had no money and was living on the streets. He is trying to sort out his social security checks. -
James Flavy Coy Brown,48, now lives at a boarding home in Sacramento after a harrowing journey from a mental hospital in Las Vegas to the unfamiliar streets of Sacramento. He was released from a Nevada state psychiatric hospital in February with only three days medication and a one way bus ticket to Sacramento where he knew no one. Joy Ubungen took him into Home Sweet Home, her boarding home. He will soon be reunited with his daughter Shotzy Faith Harrison, 25, and her family in North Carolina. -
James Flavy Coy Brown, 48, folds his laundry outside Home Sweet Home boarding house. "I need clothes, I only have 2 pairs of pants and 2 pairs of socks," said Brown who has been living on the streets of Sacramento before Joy Ubungen took him into her boarding house. He was released from a Nevada state psychiatric hospital in February with only three days medication and a one way bus ticket to Sacramento where he knew no one. Now he lives at a boarding home in Sacramento after the harrowing journey from the mental hospital in Las Vegas to the unfamiliar streets of Sacramento. -
James Flavy Coy Brown loves the leather couch where he often watches TV at the Home Sweet Home boarding house. He was released from a Nevada state psychiatric hospital in February with only three days medication and a one way bus ticket to Sacramento where he knew no one. After a harrowing time homeless owner Joy Ubungen took him into her boarding house.
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