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Keith Alan Howey still carries his tape recorder with him.\\xa0 It's habit by now, after a year of searching for interviews to include in his Master's thesis on the causes of homelessness among veterans.\\xa0 Howey's a military veteran himself, and a Fordham sociology student who spent the past year asking himself: Why do so many veterans slip through the cracks?\\xa0 And how come I didn't?
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