No matter how badly I smelled from sleeping on pavement, or how much of his food I ate to get a meal that wasn't stolen, no matter how much I cried and raged about my life, he never once left my side.
Like many immigrant Iranians he became a chaiwala, selling tea on the street near the Gateway of India, and sleeping on pavements at night.
For four weeks he had survived penniless in Paris, sleeping on pavements in the 10th arrondissement and, when it rained, jostling for a space beneath the Stalingrad metro bridge.
In a nation where joblessness is now more than 20%, with no family untouched by it, the sight of people sleeping on pavements and park benches, in metro stations and shopping arcades, doorways and cars, is the most visible sign yet of an economy in freefall.
He said it was "deplorable" that in the 21st Century London people had to resort to sleeping on pavements.
Migrants who sleep on pavement often don't have easy access to showers, and until recently, when human rights organizations delivered supplies, they didn't have soap or hand sanitizer readily available, Valenzuela said.
But this guy, Robert, was sleeping on the pavement.
Long queues form for matinee seats, with some people sleeping on the pavement overnight.
They wind their way through the people sleeping on the pavement.
"How are people supposed to respect the police when they see them sleeping on the pavement in their uniforms?
