Day 213 at the 16th St. Plaza: Camaraderie on Capp Street

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Federico and Anthony, both in their late 40s, looked like they had known each other forever. But really they had just met today, on the corner of 16th and Capp streets. They formed a San Francisco postcard, leaning back against a sun-soaked brick wall, laughing softly with quiet ease.

That was until a glass pipe slipped out of Anthony’s hands and shattered on the pavement.

Anthony is a San Francisco native with a debilitating fentanyl addiction, he told Mission Local . Over the past few years, he has struggled to get clean six times but never managed to stay sober for more than a month. He used to love the Mission but he’s getting tired of it — it feels impossible to stay clean when drugs are so accessible.

“I’ve been writing down baby