Understand that I was usually living in a 500 square foot duplex most of those years, simple and cheap, not everyone had a decent paycheck back then .
It did light a fire under me to buy a house, it took me until I was in my late 20's before I bought my first house, a dump but it was mine, no landlord to tell me "
! NO MOTOCYCLES AND STOP WORKING ON OLD CARS !"
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