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skygazer

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Mon Dec-20-04 03:15 PM
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6. No, I grew up middle class

But I dropped out of school and left home early and wound up on the poverty cycle. I escaped largely because I took things into my own hands - my welfare worker told me, when I explained that I wanted to go to school and learn a trade or something, that I didn't have to because I could collect welfare until my youngest child was six. Had I been less determined, I would have just let her talk me into staying on welfare rather than trying to become self sufficient.

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