To: GraceZ who wrote (47229 ) 1/18/2006 2:14:14 AM From: shades Read Replies (1) | Respond to Who are you calling my peers? My peers (if you are talking about the ones I grew up with) are mostly dead or in jail or going to 12 step meetings. pbs.org My parents abandoned me and my four older sisters when I was nine. My father, whom I have no doubt loved me, was an untreated paranoid in 1963, he managed to come pretty close to killing his whole family on more than one occasion before the local authorities stepped in for us. I lived in children's homes and foster homes until I was 15 and then I took off to live on the street for a few years. I came back when I saw that was a dead-end, found a new living situation that would get past the social welfare azzholes to college. After HS I worked a year as a waitress in a coffee shop. Then I got a scholarship and took out some loans to go to college, paying my living expenses as a domestic and various other low paying menial jobs. pbs.org I got out of college and had other low paying jobs until I finally started my own biz. As for my observations about you and how you feel about women, they are dead on. No woman survives living on the street and hitchhiking around the country for as many years as I did without being able to accurately read men and their particular dysfunctional neurosis in regards to women. My advice to you is that you take very good care of your hands, you'll need them more and more as you get older.
