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I'm a writer and a journalist, and I'm also an insanely curious person,
我是一個作家，一個新聞記者，我也是一位具有強烈求知欲的人，
so in 22 years as a journalist, I've learned how to do a lot of new things.
所以在做新聞記者的22年里，我知道了很多新奇的事物。
And three years ago, one of the things I learned how to do was to become invisible.
而三年前，我學會做的一件事就是變成隱形人。
I became one of the working homeless.
我成了一個無家可歸的工作者。
I quit my job as a newspaper editor after my father died in February of that same year, and decided to travel.
我辭掉了報紙編輯的工作，在我父親那年二月去世之后，我決定去旅行。
His death hit me pretty hard. And there were a lot of things that I wanted to feel and deal with while I was doing that.
他的去世對我打擊非常大。當時這么做，是因為有很多我想去感知和處理的事。
I've camped my whole life. And I decided that living in a van for a year to do this would be like one long camping trip.
旅游時我天天都在露營。并且決定在休旅車里住一年，就當作是一段長期野營旅行。
So I packed my cat, my Rottweiler and my camping gear into a 1975 Chevy van,
所以，我就帶上我的貓，我的羅特威爾犬和露營的裝備，裝載到1975產的雪佛萊旅游車上，
and drove off into the sunset, having fully failed to realize three critical things.
開車去看日落，但當時完全沒想過三件嚴重的事。
One: that society equates living in a permanent structure, even a shack, with having value as a person.
一：社會將住房，即使是很小的房間，和人的價值等同起來。
Two: I failed to realize how quickly the negative perceptions of other people can impact our reality, if we let it.
二：我沒有意識到其他人的負面言語對我們本身的影響是多么嚴重，假如我們放任不管。
Three: I failed to realize that homelessness is an attitude, not a lifestyle.
三：我沒有意識到無家可歸是一種生活態度，而不是一種生活方式。
