HUGHES: She didn't want to be alone, it seemed like, a lot of the time. MORRIS: Hughes quickly realized that he and this duck had things in common. And then in the morning, when I'd get up, she'd get up, jump in the water. ![]() HUGHES: And she would just sit there facing me, making sure everything was cool, and she'd spend the night there with me. A few days later, he woke to find the duck watching him. MORRIS: Then, one day, Hughes spied a black bird standing out against a flock of Canada geese. It just feels really good to make a connection with an animal of any kind, and not having a pet was a real problem for me. ![]() Cast out from his job and his home, deeply depressed, he set up camp here just before Thanksgiving 2020.ĭAVE HUGHES: The first thing that I missed when I became homeless was having a pet. He's in his late 50s, with a salt-and-pepper beard, stocking cap and old backpack. MORRIS: None of this held any joy for Dave Hughes - not at first. It's lined with lush green space and teeming with birds. It used to be so polluted, people called it Flush Creek. ![]() And as Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports, that duck gave the man a new lease on life.įRANK MORRIS, BYLINE: Brush Creek cuts through the heart of Kansas City. A wayward duck started hanging around his encampment. In the depths of the pandemic, something simple and beautiful happened to a man living under a bridge in Kansas City.
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