TN: Neighbors Help Troubled Transgender Woman
By: Joyce Peterson |Email: jpeterson@myeyewitnessnews.com | ABC 24 Memphis
Memphis, TN - To say that 43 year-old Duanna Johnson leads a difficult life would be an understatement. At her small, rundown, North Memphis house you’ll find condom wrappers on the ground outside her door.
Her power meter is missing. Not that it matters because her electricity was turned off months ago after she stopped paying her utility bill.
She has one extension cord running from her bedroom window to the neighbor’s house. They charge her $20 a month to plug into their electricity. It powers the single fan Duanna uses to cool her house.
And because Johnson has no running water in her home, neighbors often let her use their bathrooms to wash up and take care of her personal hygiene.
“Well, she would come over and talk,” says 82 year-old Hattie Mae Benson. “And I mean, it was a good while before I knew what was happening.”
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