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Have you ever been Homeless ? (50s)

More and more people are struggling these days.
I was homeless for about 4 months in the late 90's. Had alcohol problems.
Set up a tent in the hills surrounding Perth.
Used to visit the Soup Kitchen in Fremantle.
No home, no job, No money, no hope.
Very disheartening when society ignores one.
If you watch people walk past a homeless person, the majority avert their eyes.
They do realise that at the stroke of a pen, there goes your job, your Mortgage payments, your home, your self esteem, your reason for living.
So many people are living on the edge of the Abyss, a slight tremor will make the foundation crumble and many people will fall to their demise
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KaysHealingPath · 36-40, F
I have been. I was 16. My options stay home and wait to be raped and continue to accept the sexual harassment and molestation from my mother’s husband- or leave and take my chances.

I felt safer on a park bench then I did I at home. Eventually my best friends parents offered me a place to stay. I slept in my best friends room with him and his 2 little brothers. I slept on a bunk bed. I stayed with them for 3 months while I worked 2 jobs and saved enough to get my own little apt