What Would You Do If You Lost Everything

The price of dreaming big

WriterKat
11 min readAug 25, 2021

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Aerial view of our home and business

Flood and fire — one of our worst nightmares happened in August 2014.

When my husband and I purchased the sprawling property in Montpelier, Indiana, it was a dream come true. We both grew up poor — him due to an alcoholic father who gambled his money away and me from an abusive stepfather who couldn’t keep a job. As a child, I…

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WriterKat

Writer focused on holistic health, poetry, personal development, spirituality, technology, books, movies, and music.