re: #186 DangerMan

(‘75-‘79) we/ students talked about it all the time
very few actually had the nerve to jump off their personal gravy train

We basically had to claim that my stepfather was a bastard and refused to support me (he was not) so we would be eligible for aid.

But in our case, my parents were on Social Security and did not own a million-dollar home, just a two-bedroom wood frame house in Merrillville, Indiana.