Homeless in L.A. - American Dream is Over for Some

Former Reporter Homeless

This story is probably much more prevalent than most can imagine.  Things happen and life gets out of your control as if you ever had control.  Here is a college educated writer now living in a shelter and spending his days in the library.  I often thought that I'd rather live in a cabin in the woods like Thoreau with no electric and wood for heat, water in a ditch or from rainfall,  and healthcare of the same kind in his day, meaning none but a local doctor.   Anything really bad coming your way in the form of health problems meant you were just out of luck.

Food, grow what you can and buy the rest with your meager social security check.   That is better than Thoreau had.  How long would you live.  It all depends but even if you're gone by 70 just remember that for most the last ten years is a struggle anyway.  So making it to 80 or 90 is no joy no matter who you are and how much money you have.

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