Missing Woman - Page 2

gazelle77 · ‎03-01-2013

On 4/27/2014 cody said:
On 4/27/2014 gazelle77 said:
People do just walk away without telling anyone... I did at 17. It was 1974 and I was living on my own, working and renting a room. I was estranged from my family at the time. I was unhappy. I packed up my few things in a suitcase, left a letter to my landlord who I was renting from that I was leaving.. I had no car so I took a city bus to the grey hound bus terminal in Seattle, and just picked a random city to go to. It ended up being Portland Oregon.

I arrived with my suitcase in hand and $200 cash in Portland. I walked about 20 blocks to the Woman's YWCA and for $15 dollars a week I rented a shared room. The next day I walked downtown( I was in the middle part of Portland near in downtown) and got a job as a wait person at a VIPS( like a Denny's). I worked full time there and living at the YWCA, saved up my tip money for about two months. Then I found an apartment to rent for $350.00 a Month. It was in an old Victorian home that had converted to apartments with kitchens. I lived there pretty much with all the drug dealers and such for about a year.... I got a dog at the pound and had a friend. Sometimes at night the cops would raid someone who lived there... it was REAL LIFE IN THE CITY ${#emotions_dlg.scared}$ . I had pimps come up to me when I was on walks with my dog... it was very scary. But, I must have had an angel looking out for me.

My Father did not know where I disappeared to... It was at the same time as Ted Bundy... and all the missing girls. The police told him that at 17 I was an adult not a child and they would not look into my disappearance. I did after about three years write my Father and he came to visit me in Portland. I feel bad I put him through all of that now, but, I was young and careless and just doing what I felt I needed to with no direction in my life at that time. I made some careless choices... but, I think it also made me very strong and independent at a young age. And that experience gave me the strength I have today to overcome diversity.

SO YES. People do just leave, disappear on their own. It is very common. To start over, get away from family whatever.

Ok, please don't take this wrong. But did you mean Adversity? Again, I am not making fun. I just think you made an honest mistake but I do not believe you are not trying to overcome Diversity.

If all you got out of that was to correct me so be it.

SydneyH · ‎03-10-2010

On 4/27/2014 PinkSugar said:
Women & children disappear every day. Only a few make the news.

The media has been accused of suffering from the 'missing white woman' syndrome, can't say that's too far off the mark.........

cody2 · ‎03-19-2010

gazelle77. I apologize for making you angry. I was hoping it would give you a chuckle...as it did me.

As for your story, I hope you don't see the day when you regret posting it. Those things have a way of coming back on you when you least expect it.

gazelle77 · ‎03-01-2013

On 4/27/2014 cody said:
gazelle77. I apologize for making you angry. I was hoping it would give you a chuckle...as it did me.

As for your story, I hope you don't see the day when you regret posting it. Those things have a way of coming back on you when you least expect it.

How would my story come back to haunt me? It is ME. I am not ashamed of choices I made 40 plus years ago.