He was going to be publicly beheaded as the encore act of the final performance.

Yes. Honestly, I think the only thing standing between me (and most people) and homelessness is having people that could support me if I fell on rough times. I could cobble together some kind of network of friends and family to provide me with a safety net of sorts.

My parents were very against me getting a job or even an internship in college - I was never an A student, and they were worried about my grades suffering if I had a job, and I didn’t need to work but did need to get good grades, so the thinking went. And then I got out of college and nobody ever asked about my GPA…

Mr. WildNights and I bought a house in a stupid neighborhood for too much money at a time when we thought the market had reached the bottom (LOL forever). Seven years and a few life circumstance changes later, we had run through our savings and run up credit cards trying to stay in that house. It became obvious that…

Whereas, I think being poor made me unable to handle my finances because I didn’t know what it was like to have money. Even now, there are things I simply don’t understand or consider because they weren’t a part of my life growing up at all.