“I wanna go to school so bad. I wanna read,” Ivan said excitedly on the first day of school.
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Ivan Prays for a Superman to Find Him a Home.
In a park, the “20/20” team met Ivan Stevens; his mother, Precious; and his little brother, Imere. Sometimes they spent the whole day dirty, hungry and homeless, with no place to go.
The owner of an illegal boarding house occasionally gave them a place to sleep. He padlocked the refrigerator to keep them from taking food, and all three of them slept on one chair, surrounded by clutter and roaches.
Ivan wished he could be Superman and fly on someone’s back to find his family a home. “Superman” had also heard of kindergarten.