But it still takes a good twenty years to pull yourself out of poverty, as I came to find out. And that’s if you’re lucky—no medical crisis, no new traumas that make mental health seem like some silly fairy tale, the realm of princesses and parents who somehow manage to give just the right amount of support to their children. If you can survive the weight of bills you can’t pay and the emotional demand of children who you know deserve to be loved better than you
