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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a luxury it is to have hot running water.[/quote]

I was born in Thailand, but moved to the US as a toddler and grew up MC/UMC and am now reasonably wealthy. As a kid, my parents never had enough $ to fly back there. And my mom had a terrible relationship with her family, so it seemed no great loss. It wasn’t till I was in my mid-20’s that I was able to afford a flight back there to essentially meet my relatives. My family there was dirt poor - literally. My grandfather’s house was on stilts over a dirt surface and had no electricity nor running water - rain was collected in an urn. But as I was visiting, my grandfather took it upon himself to heat water in his biggest cooking pot so that I would have hot water to bathe with. That was my first intimate exposure to ‘poor’. Nothing my mom had ever told me could have conveyed it as strongly as actually being there, and not having running water was the thing that I really missed and that sticks with me most today.[/quote]

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