The woman usually stood near the East Lake Village Center, a shopping complex with grocery stores, dentists, florists, jewelry stores, restaurants, salons, vintage stores, clothing departments, and sweet shops, where it was more likely for people to stop and give her some change, especially when they noticed she was pregnant. That was her way to attract people’s attention in the daytime, but she didn’t know yet that Melissa now had her eye on her. She actually decided to follow the woman and her son in order to confirm her gut feeling about them.
