Lance Droy:  

Thirty one years ago, I married a Welsh midwife who had been recruited to the Chicago Area. After a series of strange jobs (never a career) and odd entrepreneurial escapades, we finally cashed the Brit ticket and moved to Swansea, South Wales, in April, 2003. We stayed for 3 months with my wife's sister and brother-in-law, before moving in to a large Victorian House, to begin renovating it for use as a bed and breakfast. Three months after we moved out of my in-laws house they decided to end their horrible marriage of 40 odd years. Six months later, my brother-in-law stabbed my sister-in-law six times, with a steak knife and screwdriver. The nasty lady lived, got all the money; and he is in the big house with the soft rooms, probably forever. We worked to get the B&B up and running and got ourselves into a niche housing young homeless people. (Over here,at, or after, the age of 16, when your obligation to education is done, if your parents kick you out of the house, for not obeying their rules, the state will pay for you to stay in a B&B, and give you £40 a week to develop your drunkeness, drug use and sexual promiscuity.) We were even featured briefly on a BBC documentary on homeless young people in Wales. We have since branched out our business to include Asylum seekers, who are overall, much better (potential) citizens than the local young people. So far, I estimate that 5 of the young people that passed through our doors have passed on; 2 suicides, 2 ODs and one car accident. In the early years, it was like Dorothy in Oz, only instead of "Lions and Tigers and Bears!" It was "Junkies and sluts and Thugs, OH MY!" The number of girls who have become single mothers, after pausing at our establishment, is almost beyond counting. (And to dispel a racist myth; if you pay young, white girls to have babies, they will. Oh yes they will.) At a car boot sale, which is kind of cross between...Expand for more