Oracle, I don't mean to pry, but did you have access to health care? Regular meals? A roof over your head?
You consequently were way ahead of the kids I worked with in shelters, who start out with addicted or imprisoned parents (who often were barely adults themselves), no support, no money and no home.
Most of the teenagers I knew from that shelter wound up in trouble or on the streets, too.
Some people have a lot farther to climb than others, and sometimes when they fall it actually isn't their faults. Hell, some never even get off the ground.
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