Thank you. I was worried I might be doing the homeless an injustice by even putting myself in that category. I definitely experienced what it felt like to be 'out of' society, and not through choice, but I had financial backup, I own properties, I had a job, and friends and family to catch me if I really fell.

Even then, it sucked.

How it must be to have none of that, I can't imagine.

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Top writer in Parenting. Multi-lingual traveller, writer, learner, teacher. Raising my little girl in Cuba and Europe and cannot wait to show her the world.

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Top writer in Parenting. Multi-lingual traveller, writer, learner, teacher. Raising my little girl in Cuba and Europe and cannot wait to show her the world.