Ordinary People; Sharon and Bill Murphy are not wealthy philanthropists lookingto give something back. They're just regular folks following a simple dictate: If people need a home, give them one.

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 28, 1999| Author: Megan Rosenfeld | Copyright information

When Sharon Murphy went to National Airport to pick up the new arrivals from Kosovo, she knew the 45-year-old woman was dying. She drove them from the airport to the hospital, aware that this family of four would be complicated in ways unlike the dozens of others she has had in her care, and that the bureaucracy of death would add new phone numbers to the 200 already in her Rolodex.

She took the Kosovars in anyway. She took them to an apartment building on Fairview Avenue in Takoma Pa...

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