it and worked toward it like everyone else, all of us __1__ chasing the same thing.
One year, through a series of unhappy events, it all fell __2__. I found myself homeless and alone.
I had my truck and $56.
I __3__ the countryside for some place I could rent for the __4__ possible amount.
I came upon a shabby house four miles up a winding mountain road __5__ the Potomac
River in West Virginia.
It was __6__, full of broken glass and rubbish.
I found the owner, rented it, and __7__ a corner to camp in.
The locals knew nothing about me,
__8__ slowly, they started teaching me the __9__ of being a neighbor.
They dropped off
blankets, candles, and tools, and began __10__ around to chat. They started to teach me a belief in a __11__ American Dream—not the one of individual achievement
but of __12__.
What I had believed in, all those things I thought were __13__ for a civilized life, were nonexistent in this place. __14__ on the mountain, my most valuable possessions were my __15__ with my neighbors.
Four years later, I moved back into __16__.
I saw many people were having a really hard time,
__17__ their jobs and homes. I managed to rent a big enough house to __18__ a handful of people. There are four of us now in the house,but over time
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