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Wellstone ruled

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15. Yes we have and that was on several

Reply to onethatcares (Reply #14)

Sun May 10, 2015, 07:27 PM

May 2015

Caribbean Islands. Here is one that very few will ever tell you about,and that is the huge number of R/V Parks that are home for tens of thousands of older retired folks that have lost everything and are living in a R/V just on step form being homeless. The other travesty is young families living the same way with little hope of moving back to a real home or apartment. Yes there are many who live a nomadic R/V lifestyle,and they can well afford it. But,there are tens of thousands that are living hand to mouth on a daily basis.

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