Reply #35: Yeah well, life is what it is. [View All]

[cherokeeprogressive]

I own a house that was once worth close to a million dollars. It's not worth that now. But, I didn't buy it to make money on it, I bought it because I loved its location and what it represented. I put every penny I had into it. It will always by mine, and no one can take it from me for any reason other than non-payment of property taxes, which are nothing to sneeze at.

I'm not rich, no matter what you think of me.

Have a good night.

P.S., I have no ill will toward the woman I married at 21 who had bigger and better hopes for her life. She grew up as the daughter of a management person at the South Gate General Motors plant in So. Cal. After our divorce, she got pretty much what she wanted, which I could never have given her as a Sailor. It is what it is.