Karyl’s Reviews > Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth > Status Update

...cycling through schools as I did, I learned young that friendships, clubs, and activities would go on without me, would forget me, just as a year prior they'd never known I existed. In our obsession with home as a material thing, we forget that primal needs can be met even as the human spirit is hurt. Belonging is, on a psychological level, a primal need too.