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The Moth Radio Hour: Mum's the Word

The Moth

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The Importance of Providing for Your Children

"I left my middle-class comfort and fled to Jacksonville, a city I'd only visited twice just for fun. After five days wandering around homeless, the only place that I could afford for my kids and me was a unit in a dilapidated cement tenement with no refrigerator," she says. "Those piss-poor conditions made me feel so bad, so low. I felt insignificant."

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