I got a little help from a couple of private charity organizations. That's about it. If I had ended up homeless, I could have gone to a privately run women's shelter, but other than that, I was pretty much screwed. Thankfully, I no longer live in the United States, so I don't have to personally worry about it any more, but I still worry for people who managed to slip through the many, many cracks in the "system" in the United States. I've known an awful lot of people who just had a miserable string of luck and ended up in the dumpster, sometimes literally. bonni

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