Two months before I graduated, I was homeless, and stayed that way for six months. This wasn\u2019t the fault of anyone other than myself, as I was merely an 18-year old, naive young man struggling to find my place in the world.<\/p>\n

My biological parents had divorced when I was three years old, and my father remarried once and my mother twice. With all of these abrupt changes, it is hardly surprising that my relationship with my stepparents was fractured at best, with rampant and sustained verbal and physical abuse.

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