AND THE GREATEST OF THESE - Tecno-Libro

. At first glance they seemed like all the rest. All the rest, that is, in a psychiatric emergency room. i make my meager living in one of Nashville's busiest mental health thoroughfares. The white collars who sign my bi-monthly checks call me an assessment specialist, a fancy name for a crisis counselor. They give me a badge with my mug shot, tell me to admit all paying customers, and pray that i stay in touch with reality along the way. Sometimes i wonder which side of the assessment desk i belong on. On any given day, i have the .twelve-hour pleasure of discussing the game of life with the homeless and the hopeless both young and old, rich and poor, including physically .and sexually tramautized kids, women, men, and, sad to say, the newest members of the abuse club the elderly.From street-hustling hookers selling their souls for one more hit off that crack pipe to uptown alcoholics craving another shot to sustain their lives. from Alzheri