LAWRENCE — The empty parking garage stirred at 7:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving Eve for The Movement Family’s weekly Wednesday night dinner.
By 7:45, TMF – homeless people and others who are struggling, along with those there to help them – filled the cavernous Buckley, a former bus station in downtown Lawrence.
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