![]() ![]() Throughout these experiences I was the recipient of much empathy from those working at food banks, others in attendance at the Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to which I accompanied my mother, social workers, teachers, classmates who knew where I lived, etc. When I reunited with my mother and moved into a trailer park in the rural northern Sierra Nevada mountains of California I believed that I was now part of middle-class America. In middle school I became a dependent of the court. ![]() Both of my parents’ mental health issues led to a life of chaos with intermittent periods of stability, but constant poverty. My parents, my eight siblings, and myself lived in a homeless shelter for over four months, and then spent another four or five months living in a motor home. ![]() My earliest memories are of homelessness as a child. ![]()
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