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A moving video posted on YouTube nearly a year ago is starting to get viral play now as the social news site Reddit is seeking out the homeless man it features, giving an honest account of what it feels like to be on the streets, looking for a job and to be called a bum. Ronald Davis of Chicago says in the video that he has been homeless for about a year and a half. The video was posted in July, so he has been homeless for at least two years now. He doesn’t say why. He has slept under bridges, in cardboard boxes and on benches when he doesn’t have enough money for the flophouse, a place where it costs $16 for 24 hours.