While I'm rambling, I gotta say a lot of people think others and by others I mean everyone who lives in poverty in public housing (no, not section 8, section 8 is not public housing) is a crack whore living it up on the system

I mean I might be whorish but I never touched crack
I never did any drugs. I like alcohol, but not all the time.

Some of us are just adult orphans who will never know or know too late, our worth.

Some of us are veterans who came home and had nowhere to go.

Some of us watched our homes burn down & were left with nothing
Some of us are abandoned spouses, divorcees, who found themselves left with nothing but the children from that failed marriage and nowhere to go and nobody else to help

Drugs were never involved, life was
The thing about poverty is everyone's story about how they wound up in it is different

but the stereotypes continue mostly through ignorance and the refusal to even ask how or why

and then it's judge, discourage, judge, hate

when it should be talk, understand, help
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