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[quote=Anonymous]Not me, but a cousin made his way from Michigan to Southern California at 15 in the 1990s. Shockingly, it took just five days. People were all too happy to give him rides and he later swore that only one person was inappropriate with him. Most of the people who gave him a ride had their own teenage runaway story or their own kid had run away and they stressed he was safer with them than someone else. A few gave him money or bought him food before parting ways.

His experience once he arrived in Southern CA was very different. Almost immediately people tried to traffic him. He spent a sleepless week before he agreed to let a priest call his family back home. My uncle flew out there to get him. The whole thing took about two weeks, he was physically unharmed, but they all ended up in family therapy for two years. No major issues at home (though my uncle was a serial cheater). My cousin just wanted to experience what he saw on tv and teen movies. He asked to go there on family vacation. His parents said no. So he ran away.

Today, he’s still the impulsive person in the family and will disappear for a month to pop up somewhere unexpected. Sometimes he only resurfaces because he is financially stranded by whoever paid for his ticket to someplace exotic and then grew weary of his company. Until my uncle died, he would cough up the money for a return flight. Now, he’s hit us up a few times. We’re middle aged now so this habit is less charming than when we were younger. [/quote]

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