Mean People Suck

There are lots of people in this town who are homeless and mainly live by carrying a cardboard sign asking for $$ and walking up and down a busy median. I saw one yesterday that really got to me. It said “Got away from abusive man. Trying to live in woods (with cat)”. I gave her a $5. It takes a lot of guts to get the hell out of a situation like that, especially since you have to leave behind your shelter and all your stuff... plus she got her cat out of it. (Of course I am making that assumption. I didn’t conduct an interview while the light was red) I used to live with an abusive asshole. It was a long-term relationship and it took years to actually get out of it, plus I will never actually get over the bitterness and after-effects. He once threw my new kitten across the room and it hit the wall (scratch off one life, she stayed with me and lived to be 14). Jealous of a damned kitten, and would have killed it to spite me. I’m 100% sure of it. Probably would have killed me too. He’s still out there, and I will never really feel safe until I see his obit, or that he’s been sent to prison (he always expressed a desire to kill somebody or another, and also enjoyed stealing stuff). That’s because he is a stalker. I got a drunken phone call from him 10 years ago, and that was after 14 years of thinking I was free of him. He had kept tabs on me for all that time, and still seemed to think that I was his property. His mother lives in Houston and he might also live there. Too close for me.