For most of his life, Tom Costello Jr. had a deep fear of homeless people.
When walking in downtown Philadelphia, he would go out of his way to avoid them, and the thought of driving his wife, Nancy, to a local soup kitchen for an afternoon of volunteering was enough to bring on a panic attack.
“I know it sounds completely irrational, but I had this terrible phobia,” Costello, 68, tells People. “Everything about homeless people made me feel extremely nervous and uncomfortable.”
Then in 2010, Costello, an adjunct business professor at Montgomery County Community College, in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania was finally...
When walking in downtown Philadelphia, he would go out of his way to avoid them, and the thought of driving his wife, Nancy, to a local soup kitchen for an afternoon of volunteering was enough to bring on a panic attack.
“I know it sounds completely irrational, but I had this terrible phobia,” Costello, 68, tells People. “Everything about homeless people made me feel extremely nervous and uncomfortable.”
Then in 2010, Costello, an adjunct business professor at Montgomery County Community College, in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania was finally...
- 2/16/2017
- by Cathy Free
- PEOPLE.com
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