[dragnet2]

Seeing the derelicts there, the broken people, and I had my heart broken for the first time—it has never left me and is still vivid in my memory

My point wasn't about me at all.

That's odd, you said I, me, my, repeatedly in a single sentence.

[Hebrews 11:6]

You cannot let it go. Now, despite already having admitted arguing inappropriately, nevertheless you aggressively attempt to put me on the defensive. But so you shall have the explanation you demand, I give you that satisfaction.

I said all that to detail the profundity of the education that God began in me that day (age five was not too young to begin), in leading up to my final statement referencing the permanency of poverty: "The faces have changed, but...."

I suggest eternal value awaits you in shifting your intense focus away from my transitory and insignificant post and onto Jesus' timeless message, which I quoted from Matthew 26 in abbreviated form above. See also Mark 14 and John 12.