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[quote=Anonymous]My dream as a kid was to live in a house. I would daydream of being kidnapped.  I was not only poor but grew up in a very dysfunctional and abusive house.

I remember:

Lunch tickets for free lunch
not being able to afford an instrument when all my friends picked their 5th grade instrument with excitement 
Not being able to take dance or gymnastics classes like my friends
Not having a bike or knowing how to ride one
No vacations, not knowing how to swim 
Roaches and mice (I still shake my shoes before putting them on)
Beans and rice
Taking food stamps to the grocery store with my cousins
Christmas gifts from the local church
Lying about what I got for Christmas
Food drop offs from the local food pantry - I remember bugs in some of the food 
No AC and such hot summers with a box fan
Having to share a twin bed until middle school
No birthday parties, not being able to have anyone over
Moving a lot and changing schools - 4 elementary, 1 middle school, 4 high schools
Nobody to ever help with homework because they couldn't understand - in Elementary school

I ran away from home my sophomore year of h.s.  Through all I maintained gifted classes and high grades because I knew nothing else could save me but an education.  I was the first to finish h.s. And go to college.  Now I make 150k and have the home I never dreamed possible. I treat myself and my kids well but give as much to others as I can.  DH is such a great husband and father but less charitable and thinks I'm crazy to buy lunch for random strangers all the time. He had a very different experience growing up.  My kids will know my story when they are old enough to understand.[/quote]

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