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[artislife]

74. You know what I really came to understand during the whole marriage equality?

That married people are rewarded in this society. There is little thought for the single people. Listen to all politicians, Bernie included, they talk about families. Families.

When I was losing everything and I thought I may have to try to find a shelter, you know what I found? There are tons of places for men. There were 2 places, with about 6 beds each for women without children. I don't have a drug or alchohol problem. There was almost nothing for me. Thank god for friends.

So when you say, people should be able to live together, it sounds little like...you haven't signed a contract with someone, you don't deserve your own piece of peace in this world.

Maybe that isn't what you are saying, and I dream of lots of tiny homes on land with a large building that houses a full kitchen, common area, laundry and bathtubs for all the people who want to grow gardens, share time and skills but don't want to live in each others space 24/7--so I get the communal living. But those villages are few and far between and even more outside the reach of someone making 20 dollars or less an hour.

Oh, I live in the basement apartment of a house. I am lucky to have found it. So yeah, I live with a stranger, luckily she is gold.