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[quote=Anonymous]I was raised by my grandmother, and we were poor, but not as poor as others posting here.  Most of the time, we had enough to eat (government or church assistance), although it was not nutritionally varied.  I was not ashamed of getting free lunch - in the town where we lived many kids qualified and received it.  The thing that stressed me out the most was our housing situation - me, my grandma, and her two disabled siblings in a one-bedroom unit.  I could never get homework done because it was always noisy and I didn't have a second to myself.
I remember when I began to need a bra and she didn't consider it to be the best way to spend our limited resources (rightfully so), I went to a department store, put two on under my shirt in the changing room, and ran out of there. 
I also recall wearing a donated coat that was really itchy, too large, and not very warm, and having to fix a broken shoe sole with glue.
Overall, though I was not unhappy, probably because I was surrounded by many kids in the same or far worse situations. b [/quote]

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