Orchid,
We are missing something here.
My homes are such:
I grew up on a ten acre estate with an orchard, and every little thing a home can have. I was emotionally, sexually, physically and verbally abused to the point that my story went national and Oprah Winfrey called and asked me to do her show.
Later in my next home, and while dancing and singing with some of the most famous people in the country, I was a murder witness who testified, I wore a wire to try to gather evidence against the KKK, and was raped. I lived out of hotels after that. I was touring all of the time and so lived in hotels for six to 8 months of the year and dancing, as always, six hours a day.
I had therapy for my abuse that lasted 14 years.
My career did not allow me to stay in a home for at least 15 years. I was accosted on streets, grabbed in elevators and chased by "fans," to my room at times.
I was a battered wife of a famous man for many years and could not escape because of my name and his power in the press, I had no home, I lost my mother at 13 and well...you heard about my father at the beginning of this.
I gave interviews and told the press I was an abused child. I did shows to benefit children twice a year and never let my career stop me from doing them.
I taught master classes in city after city to dancers of every size, shape and color.
I broke my neck, twice and this last time I did damage to my spinal cord.

Highlights, these are highlights and I'm not done. I am looking for the right ghost writer to help me take the book deal I have for my story, one who will not hurt me as I work on the story of the above.

I was hunted, almost buried alive, and beaten beyond anything the editors in N.Y. have ever had come accross their desk.

And I lived in fine hotels, I ate the best food, I have expensive clothing and I take pain medication every single day, 24 hours a day for my broken neck's damage to my body.

I am rich with experiences. I lived no sheltered life. I have never had a person write to me as you have on this forum but I thought I'd better give you some background on me.

Lastly, what was your point about the gates in my community? We cannot afford a guard at a gate and it was the way they designed where I live to try to keep us safe in a city of high crime, look at our statistics in Arizona. We have a fence about my height that can be jumped at will.

This is a bit more detail about what I know as "home."

dancer9