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Old 04-20-2005, 03:52 AM  
Shoehorn!
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Originally Posted by hydro
My girlfriends dad was telling me about how he used to be homeless at 19 and started doing manual labor jobs for people and saved up enough to move into an apartment with somebody else then he started working at a grocery store for a few years and went to community college then got a steady job at a bank at $45,000 per year. Now at 52 he owns his own motorcycle repair shop and a little pizza place down town. If they wanted to the homeless really wouldn't be homeless.
Exactly. Most immigrants who came over from Europe in the early 1900s came here with nothing and built great businesses. I know plenty who ended up millionaires.
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