Tom Costello Jr. was once afraid of homeless Americans. He said “I was so afraid that if I saw a homeless person walking down the street, I’d cross the street". That changed seven years ago after his wife, a volunteer at a homeless shelter, persuaded him to help with a holiday dinner for shelter residents. Tom Costello remembers going a store and buying socks for the residents. He knew many of them were in need of clothing. At the shelter, Costello said, he dropped a pair of socks into a bag for a woman. She asked him if she could have socks for a friend who wasn’t with her that day. He gave her another pair. “She started to cry and told me that nobody had ever given me socks before,” Costello said. “Then she reached out and gave me a hug.” That experience at the shelter helped Costello end his fear of the homeless. It also led him to set up a group called The Joy of Sox. It borrows from The Joy of Sex, the name of a popular book in the 1970s.
Title: Helping America's Homeless with Socks
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2185/joy_of_sox.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Helping America's Homeless with Socks' data-article-id='2702'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='5646'>Tom Costello Jr. was once afraid of homeless Americans.</span> <span data-start-time='5646' data-end-time='14875'>He said “I was so afraid that if I saw a homeless person walking down the street, I’d cross the street".</span> <span data-start-time='14875' data-end-time='27979'>That changed seven years ago after his wife, a volunteer at a homeless shelter, persuaded him to help with a holiday dinner for shelter residents.</span> <span data-start-time='27979' data-end-time='35104'>Tom Costello remembers going a store and buying socks for the residents.</span> <span data-start-time='35104' data-end-time='39563'>He knew many of them were in need of clothing.</span> <span data-start-time='39563' data-end-time='47208'>At the shelter, Costello said, he dropped a pair of socks into a bag for a woman.</span> <span data-start-time='47208' data-end-time='52938'>She asked him if she could have socks for a friend who wasn’t with her that day.</span> <span data-start-time='52938' data-end-time='56063'>He gave her another pair.</span> <span data-start-time='56063' data-end-time='63792'>“She started to cry and told me that nobody had ever given me socks before,” Costello said.</span> <span data-start-time='63792' data-end-time='67625'>“Then she reached out and gave me a hug.”</span> <span data-start-time='67625' data-end-time='75521'>That experience at the shelter helped Costello end his fear of the homeless.</span> <span data-start-time='75521' data-end-time='81708'>It also led him to set up a group called The Joy of Sox.</span> <span data-start-time='81708' data-end-time='89479'>It borrows from The Joy of Sex, the name of a popular book in the 1970s.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2185/joy_of_sox.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=9609 data-hint-location='27979' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2185/what_did_he_buy_for_the_residents.m4a'>What did he buy for the residents?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='new socks'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2185/warm_shoes.m4a'><span>warm shoes</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2185/blankets.m4a'><span>blankets</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2185/extra_food.m4a'><span>extra food</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2185/new_socks.m4a'><span>new socks</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' 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