"I wish them well," she adds.
She says she places no blame on society or other individuals for being homeless.
"They have their lifestyle and I have mine," she says. "I'm not happy with it, but I can't seem to get up."
Despite her allusions to childhood trauma and family problems, Heffellinger says she is free from alcohol and drugs.
"I wish to get well, and smoking and drinking is not the way to that," she says. "I reach out to the spirit world all the time, even though I'm not practicing religion in any formal way."
In keeping with her ideas of spirituality, she occasionally visits Walden to enjoy the tranquility of the place where Thoreau found enlightenment.
Heffellinger wistfully describes its appeal to her: "The pond is the only place where I like to stay out late and sleep outside."
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