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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Homosex. 2015 Oct 26;63(5):601–632. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2015.1111108
Hector: When I was living with my mom, me and my mom are cool and all, but we can't live with each other. There's just so many personality conflicts, and it's like we'll really yell at each other all the time. So when I was 18, I ran away from home. I just stayed out on the streets for, like, weeks and weeks and then my friend's family took me in. I was like, “Okay, cool.”