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[quote=Anonymous]Grew up in DC. Graduated high school in 2000.

*No gas so no heat or hot water 
*Sleeping in layers of clothes during the winter 
*Making calls from payphones (no house phone)
*Walking 6 miles to my out of boundary HS when I didn't have money for bus tokens
*Carrying textbooks in grocery bags when my backpack ripped
*One pair of shoes
*Two pairs of jeans, 3 shirts (always repeated outfits during the week)
*Washing clothes in the sink with dish detergent, a bar of Ivory soap, or shampoo
*Rats and roaches everywhere.  
*Changing the 8 buckets under the leaky ceiling in my bedroom every hour or two during heavy rain
*Canned "welfare" food with white labels and black USDA lettering
*Heating water on a hot plate and pouring into old 2 liter soda bottles to keep warm under the covers at night
*Automatically knowing that any school related activity that cost money was a firm "no": bake sales, book fairs, class trips, etc
*Every Sunday evening my grandmother and I would go around the neighborhood looking to see what items people sat out for trash pickup the next day: Toys, clothes, furniture. 
*Not having an air conditioner until my junior year of college. 
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