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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiable non-cashsmartcardsfortransportation
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:02:39 -0500

Maybe some 18 year old who reads the archives of this list will re-think their idea of our socviety when they read how a highly intelligent and educated person, like you, lives within the system.

Most people will never do it. It's a lot of work to buck the system. It requires turning your back on everything you were taught. All the things society says you 'need'....big house, new car, fancy vacation, cell phone (I guess Blackberry, today), health insurance, 401K, etc.

My parents considered me a failure (my mother still does)...umpteen degrees that I'm not using, not staying in the city where I could make money, choosing to live poor and get tired and dirty, and now STAYING here without a man to "take care of me". My father always said that I'd set the family back 3 generations, and dirt farming is what his grandfather fought so hard to get away from. Even people here keep advising me to go back to school and get a degree so I can "better" myself...when they find out about the degrees I have, they just wander off, dazed.

It takes a 'different' sort of person to shrug-off society's condemnation of your lifestyle. Think about the Nearings...before they were famous, they were considered kooks and outcasts.

Lynn Wigglesworth




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