Is There a Way to Escape From Poverty?

In his younger days, just after high school, i was what most would consider a vagrant. It was the result of this desperate retreat from certain poverty that led me to work as a laborer in the pipe line industry. After about three months of working, my foreman discovered that i was staying at a hotel, and wouldn't have it. He was kind enough to invite me to stay with his family until i found an apartment. The first evening i stayed there, jay's wife got me situated in my room. I became acquainted with everyone in the house over dinner. J and his family were honest rural people who lived in an honest rural area,. No neighbors, and one