I know I am poor, so I try not to notice what other people have. But sometimes I just can't help it. Like I can't help but notice that everyone else on campus seems to have a cell phone and think nothing of it, when here I don't even have one because I cn't afford it. Other people probably have parents who pay their bills, but my parents can't do that. They are both unemployed, and this past May my mother moved from Maryland to Troy, NY and is living with a woman who hates me. In addition, I had no choice but to come with her when she moved since I had nowhere else to go, and much of my stuff that I was able to take with me remains in the NY apartment but the woman who my mother is living with will not allow me to return to the apartment even to get it. And other students here can drive and have their own cars and their parents are living together in a house in the area. But you know, houses in this area are so darn expensive and jobs are so hard to find. And it seems like all
2006-10-15
11:23:10
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