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James Murphy has battled homelessness for the past three years.

After a divorce and battling failing health, he never quite recovered.

But with the signing of an apartment lease, he begins a new chapter in his life. Friday was move-in day.

"I was in a (homeless) camp downtown Kansas City," Murphy said.

He most recently lived in a shack he built at a homeless camp in downtown Kansas City, Mo.

From a shack to an apartment, he now has a real place to call home.

"I spent many of nights crying because I was either too hot, too cold, shivering, hungry, something," Murphy said.

The timining of moving into an apartment came just as Murphy prepares for surgery. He suffers from spinal cancer and is scheduled to have a tumor removed next week.

"My doctors we

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