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To: Machaon who wrote (3154)	9/18/1999 10:32:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 6418

I wonder how many of your adult runaway friends are carrying around deep wounds from their bad experiences. Do your friends ever talk about what happened to them? I know 4 people that say they were on their own as teenagers, 2 men and 2 women. I know the 2 women and in both cases the same thing happened... it was just luck... they came to the bay area based I think on the old SF image of free housing hippie-life (which of course did not exist in the 70s). But in those days there were more shelters etc. that do not exist today... I'm almost sure of that. Anyway one came out from Ohio and the other was pretty local. The Ohio girl had about a year of difficulty from age 16 to 17, but, that was 1979 at the beginning of Silicon Valley. She got a job with a temp agency that put her in as a secretary at Apple computer and they then hired her. At that time Apple was full of non-degreed 20 year olds. She didn't get stock but made a bunch in their stock purchase plan. The other woman's story was somewhat similar. It was pure luck, things could have gone the other way. Neither of them is in any contact with their parents. I suspect these days Seattle has that same draw like here used to, or Austin. If the economic conditions exist to support them, things can be ok. But if not then there can be deadly consequences... like I say all of these people seem pretty reasonable to me, I can only conclude that their parents were mental or something.