That Time I Was Stranded & Broke in Oceanside with my Daughter.
A Short Story of Desperation, Charity, & Privilege.
3 min readDec 9, 2021
It was November of ’88 and I was a Marine Private First Class at Camp Pendleton, near San Diego. I lived off-base with my wife and daughter — on a salary that made that technically feasible, but not really.
