I had 4 housemates to help cover the mortgage

  • Tonava@sopuli.xyz
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    23 hours ago

    Yeah, one can’t exactly control being born in poverty, health issues, accidents… the list goes on. It’s true though that you can still try with whatever you got. Climbing a tree is not reaching the sky, but it is off the ground

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      20 hours ago

      This is also True.

      She does come from an upper middle class family in the 1st world, so she didn’t have to overcome poverty or major disabilities, but she did make the best of opportunities, and worked her ass off. Millions of women in her cohort were perfectly OK with being a housewife.