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Laurie, 14, spends a few hours on Friday evenings in the Christian drop-in center called the Sunshine Inn which is a haven for street kids, alcoholics, derelicts and mental patients released into the streets due to federal cutbacks. Only open from…

The first day that Alan, 14, (center) ran away, he was robbed at gunpoint of his only money, a $10 bill, by an older guy in the park. He was befriended by a merchant seaman who took him to lunch here at the Gospel Mission and gave him $1 to buy it. …

Christy, 16, is necking with a boy in the parking lot of the Monastery, a gay disco club in downtown Seattle where the street kids flock on Friday and Saturday nights. The black girl in the back seat has the street name of 'Hamburger' and is 16. …

The boy on the left is known as 'White Junior' on the street. He is 15. His pal on the right is Justin, also 15. They command as much as $300 per 'date' they say. After a particularly lucrative Friday night recently, both boys spent $300 each on…

Patti, 16, on Pike Street with her friend, Bobbi, 16, who has this 11-month-old baby boy and who is pregnant with another child.

Laurie, 14, and her friend, Teresa, 15, are accosted by a passer-by as they sit on Pike Street.

Cash-in was just pushed out of her pimp's car onto Pike Street and is waiting for a 'date' to solicit her. Her pimp won't give her the drug fix she badly needs until she makes some money for the day. The panhandling family to her left beg for money…

Candy, 17, (left with baseball cap) and Paula, 19, are lovers and part of the corps of lesbian street kids who also turn tricks for survival money.

Her real name is Brenda and she's only 15. But her street name, given to her by her pimp, is 'Cash-in', she says, because she makes so much money for him by turning tricks.

Laurie, 14, and her friend, Teresa, 15, are just two of the Pike Street pavement dwellers.