August 18, 2000    
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What does 'home' mean to you?

Safety and a removal of masks.

Anthony, 25
Baton Rouge
, LA

Wherever I live would be home. ALthough I may feel differently in the future, I wouldn't have many qualms about moving from house to house.

Shanna, 15
Cardiff ENGLAND

Home is where you feel the most yourself. It might be a geographical location, with family, friends, etc. I think that the definition of home fluxuates over the course of ones life. Part of what pushes me forward, to do new things, move to new places, is the need to find that place or state of mind. If I found it and could put a stamp on it, my life would not be as challenging or interesting.

Jaden, 21
Brampton, Ontario CANADA

A place where I'm comfortable and my family is comfortable, due in part to our hard work to keep it nice.

Jesse, 24
Bowie
, MD

A place where you feel safe and secure

Melodi, 19
Hlliard
, OH

Wherever I feel safe and happy.

Jaden, 21
Brampton, Ontario CANADA

Home is where you feel the most yourself. It might be a geographical location, with family, friends, etc. I think that the definition of home fluxuates over the course of ones life. Part of what pushes me forward, to do new things, move to new places, is the need to find that place or state of mind. If I found it and could put a stamp on it, my life would not be as challenging or interesting.

Tina, 31
Medford
, MA

Where the heart is.

Karen, 20
Marshelltown/Ames
, IA

1) Where I live
2) Where my immediate family is
3) Where I grew up

Jane, 60
West Linn
, OR

Home is a place of safety. Ideally, it is also a place to flourish but this world does not guarantee the ideal.

Jill, 59
Saylorsburg
, PA

"Home" means being where you are surrounded by people who love you and where you are comfortable being yourself.

Mandy, 24
Fairfax
, VA

Home is a place of security. Actions and appearance are not judged. there is no reason to put up a front or build walls between the others home is shared with. A home is filled with the things and people that are held the closest. Home is where your heart is this may sound clechet but it became clechet because it is true.

Chelsea, 24

Home is the place and the people that make me completely at ease and comfortable. It is where I never have to worry about who I am or what I am doing and will always be loved despite all else.

Felicia, 34
Somerville
, MA

my house. i dont think I like any other place enough to call it my home. It means the place where I can sit down on *my* couch and watch *my* TV and I can do anything I want and feel comfortable doing it.

Karen2, 14
Boston
, MA

What would I do if my mate slept with another....? I would scream...and be terribly hurt....but what I would do...would be to take a BIG hard look at my marriage, and what it was lacking. Forgive him....and try a rebuild the trust. We are all human after all.....and to forgive someone we love....even if in the end...we cannot accept and live with it....is what it's all about, isn't it?

Lindy, 42
Austin
, MN

Where I live now, in my house with my husband and two boys. It's were I belong and it's my creation.

Janet, 42
E. Brunswick
, NJ

Security. Comfort. This is the place I can really let my hair down. I  love "home."

Fisch, 45
Preston
, CT

A place with a bed and comfortable living space. In this sense, I'm utterly homeless at the moment. Sooooo tired of sofa beds.

Amy, 23
New Orleans
, LA

Home means the place where I feel loved and safe. For most of my life that was the house that I grew up in. But my parents are dead several years now, the house has changed hands several times and I rarely go back to that neighborhood.

A few weeks ago, I was travelling mostly for work and was gone for over 3 weeks. I was longing to be with my husband and dogs in my house.And I found that for me, that has become "home".

Laura, 35
Lowell
, MA

Current legal residence.

Alias Irrelevante

It should mean the house I live in, but deep down inside it really means my parent's house...the place I spent my whole life growing up!

Tracy, 24
Ocean City
, NJ

'Home' for me, right now, is just wherever I, personally, am allowed legally to sleep on a regular basis. . .it's kinda wherever I'm hanging my hat at any given point. . .It will not always be this way. . .within six(6) months to a year I'm working towards having more stability, and being in a physical place that I can feel some propriety over and that I should be able to stay in, very comfortably for two(2) to three(3) years or so. . until I fight my way up to the next tax bracket. . .

mothmc, 35
Los Angeles
, LA

Where I keep all my stuff and where I sleep. Where I know where everything else and fear for nothing. The location of someone or something I love. Like my man and my kitty cat. It just is. It's 'home'. You just know it.

Firelady, 22
Dallas
, TX

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