[Stick a Fork in Me - I am Done]

I was not homeless as a result of the welfare state. I no longer could live at home and that was a combination of what home was about and my own headstrong tendancies. I am so glad there was not welfare net back then for teenagers. I kept under police radar, and made a life for myself. I am not sure I wouldn't have taken the easier course if some street social worker had offerd me free houseing and food stamps and all the goodies of the welfare net. We get what we pay for.

[MonroeDNA]

You have Freepmail.

[oceanperch]

I agree.

I started flipping burgers after school at 14 and by 17 ran the business for the owner who was to busy going on cocaine binges. I did know that at the time he told me many years later.

I think being independant at a young age prepared me for what was to come in my adult life.

I remeber being jealous of the girls in school that had cars/money but from what I have heard they did not adjust to adulthood and surviving to well.