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So, I am sitting in the living room watching the fireworks and they're pretty and all, but with every boom that goes on, I keep seeing my apartment burn to the ground. I keep reliving the moment I walked up to see my actual apartment burning down! It was the most scariest thing I have ever lived through. Every year since then, I have always cringed at neighborhoods allowing fireworks to be put off willy nilly. I am scared from the moment I hear the first boom, until my mind realizes they have stopped. I hate 4th of July and New Years Eve. This is the first time I have even expressed this emotion or feeling towards fireworks, but that's because this is the first time I am living an apartment with fireworks going off right in my back yard!
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"Meeghan Yard said she had been visiting her sister in Cleveland and knew nothing about it until about 10:30 a.m., when she returned to discover her apartment had become a heap of rubble."
That was my best friend and roommate! I didn't have my cell phone to even tell her! I didn't know her number by heart to call her! I had no idea where she was.
"That bulldozer is sitting in my apartment, said Miss Yard, 20, who, like many of those displaced, lacked insurance. I ve lived in apartments all my life and never had it, never thought I needed it."
We made that decision together to not get renters insurance. The main reason was we couldn't afford it, but we thought nothing like this would happen.
This was my first "home" after being homeless for 4 months. Homeless and I had everything. We had only been living there for 2 months when it burned down! 2 months! We find a home and we lose everything. We worked so very hard for that home. We both had no place to live before that. Who would've thought that we would have been better off living in our car somewhere else?
