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I left home because I was hungry.

I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

I did try to leave, and she came running after me.

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home.

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.