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[quote=Anonymous]Im literally crying reading through all of your stories.

I grew up poor to a single mom. I was an only child. We slept in the car for a good 5-6 years.  I remember being so embarrased in elementary school because we would always be the first in line when school opened every morning. In our beat up two toned car with all of the physical possessions that we owned stacked up to the top of the car. I was embarrased and I never had friends bc I didnt have a home for friends to come to.

Since my mom worked multiple low paying jobs and couldnt afford a babysitter she would leave me at borders bookstore until they closed at 10 or 11pm with strict instructions never to leave the store. One night they closed and kicked me out and I remember being so terrified waiting outside on the corner for my mom to come get me. I thouht she had abandoned me and want coming back. As I saw her pull around the corner I had never been so happy to get into that beat up old car in my entire life.

Sometimes at borders I would get hungry so I developed a system where I went into the womens bathroom and raided all of the quarters from the womens tampon and feminine pad machine. Im sure the person who refilled the machine wondered where all of the quarters were going. I would take the quarters and buy a sandwich or pastry from the small cafe inside of borders.

Sometimes I would sneak out to the grocery store next door to borders and order potato salad or lunch meat and cheese from the deli section and just walk around the store eating that. This went on for about a year until the store manager asked where my mom was one day. I lied and said that she was parking the car and would be in soon. I left the food sitting in the cart ran out of the store and never went back.

For showers we used thd public pool at a park. You had to pay to go in the front door so my mom and I would sneak in through the sided[/quote]

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