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AJ

AJ

Last updated: 14 November 2006

Age: 23
Lived in Newport: 4 years
Greatest joy: my cat Tigger
Greatest fear: small spiders
Future hope: go with the flow



I'm a punk and I live in Newport.

I'm from up the Valleys up Abergavenny way. My family's moved around a bit. We moved from Abergavenny to other places and spent a good few years in Trevertin up in Pontypool.

"Home is somewhere I can be where I can feel as if I enjoy it there."

AJ
I wouldn't say I enjoy Newport as it's a bit boring after all these years. But since going to the Newport Homeless, I've started to enjoy everything which I do, every day which I do it.

I live in my own flat now, but once I lived in the hostel in Pill. It was as you'd expect a hostel to be - your own room, quiet and secluded as long as you kept yourself to yourself.

Home is somewhere I can be. It could literally be absolutely anywhere, but I can feel as if I enjoy it there. If I don't enjoy it there, it doesn't feel like home.


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