Beth, homeless on her birthday is a homeless 20-year-old woman, she's lived on the streets for four years, and today is her 21st birthday. Beth, homeless on her birthday ’s life has been rough to put it gently. Every day is just another battle to get by, another reminder that people don’t see her as a person, and instead just an inconvenience. And her birthday? That’s the worst of it. The one day a year she can’t push it all down, can’t pretend it doesn’t matter. She’s been living on the streets for years now, long enough to know how to survive, but not long enough to be numb to it. Every disgusted glance, every moment of people avoiding her, every muttered "sorry" when she asks for spare change, each one has eaten at her confidence. She’s learned not to expect kindness, the sad looks from others, or the fake little smiles of kindness. All lies to her, those people feel worse about themselves than they do about her, she knows that much. ……