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MattwithouttheT 🎩
@mathew.eth
Story time. Last night, I was coming out of the gym and got into my car in the poorly lit gym parking garage. I heard a voice, and thought I had accidentally dialed someone on my phone. As I was fumbling to pull my phone out of my pocket, I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye. A (presumably) homeless woman, half-way conscious (whole-way high on fentanyl) was laying on the floor of my backseat. It scared the shit of me, and I jumped out of the car, yelled at her to "get the f*ck out of my car". She did, as she slurred apologies, though it took her a couple minutes because she was high AF and wedged between the seats (LOL). As startled and angry as I was in the moment, there was also a part of me that felt compassion and sympathy for this person. I feel like I've been grappling with this mix of emotions since. Only in Portland...
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Trish🫧
@trish
This is a normal human reaction. Sad, scary, all of it.
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MattwithouttheT 🎩
@mathew.eth
Yeah, I feel like I was processing it all last night. It took a while to calm down enough to fall sleep. By the way, I hope you got your power back!
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Trish🫧
@trish
Power is back! Thank you My sisters mother in law had a squatter living in her crawl space (LA). She doesn’t know how long he was there before she discovered him but there were signs in retrospect so probably a while. Her son sealed the space up. I still think about it and wonder where he is and hope he’s okay
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MattwithouttheT 🎩
@mathew.eth
I mentioned this in another reply, but I recently read a memoir called Corrections In Ink that was written by my partner's cousin, Keri. She was an aspiring ice skating Olympian, Ivy League student, etc. that got into hard drugs and then after becoming clean, wrote about her experience on the streets and in the injustices she and others experienced while incarcerated. She's a great writer, and she acknowledges that her experience is different from others due to her race, gender, affluent upbringing, but it sort of gives you an inside look at what that life might be like and how someone can fall into addiction. You might find it interesting!
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