This is currently my favorite song. I've heard of it for years but never LISTENED to it. Let me tell you my story... after 16 faithful years of marriage. Two beautiful kids. I met a man with whom I fell in love. I wanted to stay with my family get divorced, find a home that my love, my children and I could all share and continue life. I told my then husband of my feelings and although our marriage had been cold for years, he put me out. I went to stay with the love, but he was being evicted two weeks from then. Over the next 3 years I stood by this man thru some of the most despicable treatment and some of the best. I lost my job, every penny I ever earned, and suffered thru things I'd never imagined...but he was a drug to me. The first night I spent with him, he freed ne. He unlocked passion I never knew was buried deep within me. For three years I chased that first time feeling only to be let down over and over. The one thing that amazes me is the bexperience of homelessness. I never imagined I'd end up homeless someday. And couldn't believe that I actually enjoyed it! I've Saud a million times if it weren't for my children and the pain of not being with them every day, I'd remain homeless by choice. Because there was something so very freeing in not being tied to one place, no routine, no job to be miserable about having to go to. And to have your love by you, experiencing it together...I wouldn't wish homelessness on anyone. There were moments, especially I'm winter, when I was sure I couldn't take any more. But it's something everyone should experience. It's amazing what we're capable of. Things we had no idea we knew, survival instincts? And feelings good and bad that we'd never have the chance to feel in a "house" and settled, safe, secure life as we are used to. So several days ago, just as the love I couldn't free myself from, freed me by cutting off all contact with me, which I know in my mind is the best thing that could ever happen. Yet my heart is now lost- then several days ago, I think of this song look it up on YouTube (the Janis Joplin version) and all I can think is, there it is. What I've looked for since he left me.