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[After nine years in the Air Force, Detroit-born Hector spent one year at the Philadelphia Art Institute, studying graphic design. After a series of clerical, administrative and graphic design jobs, making as much as $18.50 an hour, he went on unemployment, but that has run out. His girlfriend has a full-time job and they have a six-month-old daughter. Now 45, Hector drums and sells copper jewelry on the streets. When the weather gets warm, he'll make more money busking, he said. Once, a woman gave him $40 for a piece of jewelry, though he had only asked for $20.]





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