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Because here’s the thing about being poor—most people don’t understand it unless they’ve been there themselves.
Things have gotten so bleak that I’ve recently started wondering how far I have left to fall before hitting bottom and what I’ll do if I ever reach that point.
“Because, in my experience, if something seems too good to be true, that’s because it is.”
Never take anything you haven’t earned, my father used to say. You always end up paying for it one way or another.
hall, where I get turned around by the opposite
It’s hard. Life is hard. And too damn expensive.”
moving through the smoke-stained halls. The