No Moon Falls Beyond His Mountain

The 1980s. I'd waited in line for over two years at the factory, and finally the housing policy came around to my turn. Excited, I rushed over to the employee housing office at work to hand in my paperwork. But after the clerk looked it over, he said, "You don't meet the requirements for company-assigned housing." I was stunned. "Why not? When I first started here, they said I could get in line for housing once I was married."