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   Shantell Powell (shanmonster@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 00:13:08 JST Shantell Powell

   I was a houseless child. Several years of my childhood were spent living in campers and travel trailers, moving from one rural/remote community to another while my dad chased jobs which never lasted. We lived in campgrounds or squatted out in the bush. We lived off grid for several years. Dad even made a septic tank system out of an old deep freeze, and we got our power from a generator. We used hurricane lamps instead of electricity, and got our water from local springs or village wells. I lived all over the Atlantic provinces and British Columbia, going from school to school and rarely making friends. I don’t know anyone aside from my own sister who had a similar childhood.

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     Shantell Powell (shanmonster@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 00:13:52 JST Shantell Powell

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     I always considered myself lucky because I knew kids who were raised in tents or heaped up cardboard boxes. But I never ever want to live in such close quarters again. Cabin fever is real.

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