Life after homelessness: 'I bought a rusty old narrowboat – it has become a nice home'

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Life after homelessness: 'I bought a rusty old narrowboat – it has become a nice home'
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Tony Jones, 48, wrote to the Guardian to tell us how he spent years bouncing between the streets and temporary accommodation before finding domestic bliss on the water

When I was 15, I left home, but it had never really felt like home. There were always screaming matches and arguments. I started living in a tent on the banks of a canal in the Black Country. I would occasionally go home for a bath and a meal, or if the weather was really bad. My parents didn’t appear to miss me. This hurt for a long time.

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