Heartwarming: Capitol Hill grieves for homeless man who was a neighborhood fixture.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/capitol-hill-grieves-for-homeless-man-who-was-neighborhood-fixture/2012/08/21/1395b668-ebc8-11e1-b811-09036bcb182b_story.html?socialreader_check=0&denied=1

This is a great story that will warm your heart. Here is a bit of it below, but click on the link for the full story in the Washington Post.

Capitol Hill grieves for homeless man who was a neighborhood fixture.

By Steve Hendrix and J. Freedom du Lac, Published: August 21

Peter Bis may have been the most rootless savant on Capitol Hill. He lived most of the past decade on the streets near Union Station without an address, a phone, a job or even a reliable connection to reality (unless the former law student with the uncanny memory really was Princess Diana’s former lover and a onetime aerospace magnate).

But in the week since Bis died of an apparent heart attack near his favorite corner at Second Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE, his many acquaintances — from think-tank economists to Hill waiters — have been marveling at just how deep a homeless man’s roots can sink into a busy neighborhood.