Oakridge: You can go home again
Residents who returned Monday to the 101 surviving homes at Oakridge Mobile Home Estates knew just how many days they've been away from their own beds: 170. Dana Bartholomew in the Daily News.
That's nearly six months sleeping on hard motel mattresses, skinny fifth-wheel berths and thin hide-a-bed couches.
"Sleeping on a hide-a-bed with my feet over the end, my arms hanging off ... every minute spent on that hide-a-bed couch is really too long," said Pete Brown, 56, a 6-foot-4 actor who's been staying with a brother in Sherman Oaks. "I just want to get home."
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