Barbara H Partee
1 min readSep 4, 2017

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Oh dear! All Too Human is a lovely film, beautifully done, but it doesn’t address the issue of giving money to unknown panhandlers directly vs giving money to organizations that help the homeless. I kept wondering how much research you had done on Ashley, who I’ve seen in Hadley for several years and once gave money to but then read an article about in the paper that said someone who sounded a lot like her was arrested for something connected with drugs. And when discussing it on FB with a friend who had shared your film on her page, another friend of hers turned up that article even with a picture that is clearly Ashley (or Ashleigh, in the article in the paper): http://www.gazettenet.com/Archives/2015/12/heroinarrest-hg-120515

That’s really sad. Using an unverified subject like Ashleigh who DOES turn out to be a drug user, maybe also dealer, unfortunately spoils what is otherwise a wonderful documentary film.

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