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Bob wrote:
I was layed off from a research position in 1994 and while
it wasn't instant, within four months I was living in my car
and then on the street when a pretext was found for
divesting me of the car. The assults followed rather
quickly. Until it happens you have no idea what it feels
like to have no power *at all* and be looking at a state
that seems designed to make that situation permenant once it
has happened.
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It's been a fairly long time since that dark night of
the soul but I still find myself scanning my environment
wherever I go for safe and dry places to sleep should the
time come again, and that recurs in my dreams regularly.
I really think more of us need that experience before things
will change. It is just not comprehensible otherwise and
the people that are suffering it remain largely invisible to
those to whom it hasn't (as they had been to me.)
Been there done that, and it's strange but it's been over 20 years for
me but I still look at my environment for such things. rEstaurant
dumpsters that remain open are sources of sustenance, an often empty
trash receptacle with a bag liner yields a ready poncho when the heavy
rains catch one. Unsecured buildings where one can get into a dry
place.

My environment is always yielding such information to me because I
know what I'm looking for, and a quarter of a century later my brain
still catalogues these items for future reference.

Richard Webb
Electric Spider Productions
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