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And, just for the record, just because I am not living in an area with a high population of transients does not mean I am never in these areas. Everytime I go downtown I am asked for money. And I lived near downtown for 8 years in a home in which it was not unusual to regularly find transients sleeping in or simply traversing the backyard. It's never bothered me.

Uh, no dude. Because we have different ways of looking at the world and the people in it. I don't think I made it difficult to understand. In fact, I think I said it quite plainly.

And to go a little further with it, it's a little insulting to infer that I would be "more like you" if my situation were a little different. I am quite definitely who I is.

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