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I loved the article "Surprised by Hope" written by Jeff Minick. I lived that "life" for a short time in the '60s and '70s and '80s. I'm only 76 years old, but I still think I have some wisdom to share.
I was born in the '40s just after War World II to a couple who had little, and then after I was only a few months old, the little they had was stolen! They were living in a very modest rental home in a small town in mid-Michigan. That theft may have led them to move back to Florida where my father grew up in a tiny little settlement called Istachatta situated on the side of the Withlacoochee River near the belly button of Florida. Our family lived for two years with my paternal grandparents. Later, we lived in a different place every year: a mine shack, an abandoned school, a house with electricity and running water, etc....