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Topic: Straddling Tracks
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Sun 05/25/14 06:00 PM
I've straddled tracks nearly all my life. Sometimes I've caught the train, other times it has caught me from behind.

My parents wanted me in good school systems, which often put me in the middle of the "haves and have nots"!!!! (and I mean REALLY wealthy communities...and somehow slipped UP the cracks...even later as an adult).

Not a sympathy thing....just weird. Life's "mostly" been good.

I was just wondering if anyone else has been in a Cinderella ping pong game?

Beachfarmer's photo
Sun 05/25/14 06:06 PM

well...yes, and no :)


could you be more vague please

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Sun 05/25/14 06:06 PM
well...yes, and no :)

Beachfarmer's photo
Sun 05/25/14 06:07 PM
....AND.....about perspectives from BOTH sides!!!!

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Sun 05/25/14 06:13 PM


well...yes, and no :)


could you be more vague please


yes laugh :wink:

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Sun 05/25/14 06:19 PM

....AND.....about perspectives from BOTH sides!!!!


well that requires being less than vague but I will try to keep it brief. Let's just say, in the way of understanding, that I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in a town where the wrong side of the tracks would be equivalent to the Taj Mahal to a lot of folks

(parents wanted the good schools thing going on there) I'm no worse for the wearflowerforyou


my mom taught school in a another district that was much more working class, so had friends there toodrinker

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Sun 05/25/14 06:23 PM
Sweetest how can you speak so much?? I mean I think I'll learn how to speak from you

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Sun 05/25/14 06:27 PM
Get it Sweet!!!... showed up from Nebraska at 10 yo, in plaid bell bottoms with a Snoopy lunch box, to 1978 Mission Viejo (planned community) CA.

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Sun 05/25/14 06:28 PM
Liar!

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Sun 05/25/14 06:29 PM

Get it Sweet!!!... showed up from Nebraska at 10 yo, in plaid bell bottoms with a Snoopy lunch box, to 1978 Mission Viejo (planned community) CA.


I didn't know they made plaid bell bottomsnoway

I'm from Philly...guess we were more underprivledged than I realized ... lol

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Sun 05/25/14 06:31 PM

Sweetest how can you speak so much?? I mean I think I'll learn how to speak from you


you are a lawyer...in America we call lawyers "mouthpieces"

I thought lawyers talked forever...hey have you been to the Tal Mahal??flowerforyou

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Sun 05/25/14 06:49 PM
Grew up working class, but had some rich relatives, also spent a couple of years in some really poor countries, got to know some really good people from dirt poor backgrounds and some well off folks who were real a holes. So yeah, I've seen the best and the worst of both sides of the tracks.

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Sun 05/25/14 06:56 PM
Yup sweet.. I've been to tajmahal... you plan to come to see it??? You've got a friend here

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Sun 05/25/14 07:02 PM

Yup sweet.. I've been to tajmahal... you plan to come to see it??? You've got a friend here
ooo that would be awesome to see!

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Sun 05/25/14 07:02 PM

Liar!


huh?shocked

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Sun 05/25/14 07:03 PM


Yup sweet.. I've been to tajmahal... you plan to come to see it??? You've got a friend here
ooo that would be awesome to see!


Then feel free to plan it and do let me know

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Sun 05/25/14 07:06 PM



Yup sweet.. I've been to tajmahal... you plan to come to see it??? You've got a friend here
ooo that would be awesome to see!


Then feel free to plan it and do let me know

I have no idea if anything like that would ever be possible, plus until things settle down in India I would be a little afraid to travel there now. TBH

but your friendship still warms my heart :heart: flowers

soufiehere's photo
Sun 05/25/14 07:08 PM
I had a filthy rich father and a poor mother.
It did not take a child long to work out that
the poor side held affection and the rich side
held everyone up to ridicule.

But I feel lucky, to have seen both sides.
And to appreciate making one's own way.

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Sun 05/25/14 07:30 PM
To me wealth means nothing! Warm hearts and souls mean everything! They are priceless! flowers

Beachfarmer's photo
Sun 05/25/14 07:33 PM


Liar!


huh?shocked
..flowerforyou sarcastic overstep......a fail at being "funny".......I mean, look where I came from.flowerforyou

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