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i wonder if that was the 16 year old queer kid who ran away from the foster home who asked if he could sleep next to us for safety….
we were just drunk, and apparently not scary….
i wonder about him sometimes, he told me his story….
what really sucks is those kids are super afraid of the police, because they’ll be instantly arrested and brought back to the foster home in virginia or wherever.
and then people like me want to help, but also don’t want to get charged for corrupting some runaway kid (we let him sleep next to us, he was gone before we woke up… and no i didn’t give him alcohol or anything)
i’ve met probably 5 different minor foster runaways in my days being homeless… well probably a lot more at the rainbow gathering (it’s a hippie gathering not a gay one, they started before the rainbow flag thing was a thing… but there are plenty of gay people there)
potential neglect is possible more common than actual abuse.