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At
the time I was going out with a girl for quite a long time, it ended
up she was pregnant, had a daughter and everything, I was in a totally
different place. After I'd been kicked out of her place, I didn't know
anybody within that town so I had nowhere to go. I spent about 3
months just wandering about going through hostels, different cities,
sometimes sleeping under bridges, sometimes garden plots and after
about 3 months I got totally fed up with it. I decided to make a stand
somewhere or other, so I did. It started off that I got a job on a
building site. I used to give a false address, but obviously a proper
name and insurance number for tax purposes, and then what I'd do come
5 o clock, I'd finish the days' work, leave the building site as
usual, but go back into the building site without anybody knowing at
about 8 o clock in the evening and I slept in the building containers.
I had a small alarm clock and I'd set it for about 5.30 in the
morning, in case anybody started work early the next day, then I'd
come out of there and the next day started again, basically just
struggle, struggle, struggle. Somehow, I've managed to find
strength within myself to get through things, no matter how difficult,
without sliding into drugs or alcohol or a criminal way of life or
whatever, due most probably, to the way I have been brought up. I have
been one of the fortunate ones, that I find that strength within
myself to be able to cope with demanding circumstances, so to speak.
Things have changed, but I am still struggling. I came back to
Blackburn 4 years ago, and that was under circumstances that my eldest
brother was found dead in Preston. He was leading a double life and
basically died of an overdose. I stopped with my mother for a while,
but that didn't work out because I'd been away from home near enough
13 years at that period of time. After a couple of months, I realised
that we just didn't get on, there was continual stress all the time so
she threatened to kick me out and I didn't have anywhere to turn to.
I started here in Blackburn, going about obviously trying to get my
own flat, I managed to get my own flat eventually and after lying a
bit about the circumstances, I managed to get a flat from Northern
Counties because I was then placed under the homeless scheme. |
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