John Wilkes Booth

i was the first child... doesn't apply

John Wilkes Booth

either way im curious to hear chula's story

cause i always pegged him for a suburbanite

Chula Vista

Mom and dad got divorced when I was 3?* Because of the unique conditions of the divorce she had to agree to let him pay basically sh*t for support. Grew up in a housing project in the slums of Lawrence, MA. We were piss poor. She was on welfare and worked full time in order to try and make ends meet for me and my two sisters.

* My mom was gay and my dad caught her with another woman. He agreed to keep that off of the record and take blame for the breakup if he would only have to pay like $15 a week per kid.

EDIT: I didn't start having good money until my mid 40s.

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The Batlord

So your parents didn't have to support more than one child? Preppy bitch.

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DwnWthVwls

First = Only.

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I don't got a god complex, you got a simple god...

Chula Vista

Only = 3

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

I was too poor to afford public school.

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John Wilkes Booth

sorry to hear that, my apologies for assuming

mine split around 8 or so, due to my dad's problems with alcohol and drugs which caused constant financial ruin/evictions. we lived in a series of complexes up until that point, my mom tried moving us in with her sister in vermont for about 6 months, that didn't work, car got repo'd and we moved back to florida and back in with dad, that didn't work, and yea... sorta went on like that, you get the point

my dad eventually got sober in my teen years and then he started making a decent living, or compared to before anyway. but we stayed in basically the same neighborhood as before because he was a frugal and self-made man. didn't have any boss, paid no taxes, etc.

Chula Vista

I was so poor the free slightly spoiled morning milk in school was the only thing I ate all day.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Chula Vista

Let's peace out JWB. I don't really wanna dredge up the past.

Welfare = extremely complex issue with no easy definitions or answers.

Agreed?

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”