window watching

I was maybe 13, 14, walking through residential areas, homeless, looking in the windows at families gathering for dinner. I didn't remember when I last ate but that wasn't so much on my mind. It was the family units gathering together that struck and wounded me. The units I was excluded from and didn't have one of my own. 

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