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Pat
I really think this is some of your very best writing...well, that I've ever read. And, contrary to most, I read this as doing a great job showing the govt lady as just doing her job and sounding pretty human and sympathetic in doing so......and in showing the anger focused on the right person - the dad - and toothless or lacking laws to protect the children's welfare. I really like the revision; however, I would suggest an 'introduction' of some sort to the change to Stell from Stella....by the neighbor, perhaps, just so it doesn't suddenly seem to appear - unless I missed something (entirely possible!).
posted by
Krisles
on June 19, 2015 at 7:35 PM
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No - nobody deserves to have to feel that way. The worst thing is that we, as taxpayers, are, and have always, paid the salaries for those people who make us feel less than nothing! You see? This story is getting me all riled up! Great writing, Pat-B.
posted by
adnohr
on June 19, 2015 at 6:14 PM
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I just don't understand why the government has to make people feel like less than human in order to receive help so desperately needed
posted by
Annicita
on June 19, 2015 at 5:02 PM
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Poor woman and poor little girls. Life was different. Welfare was the last straw and to be treated like a criminal by someone from the department. Just so humiliating and just so unfair.
posted by
Kabu
on June 19, 2015 at 4:52 PM
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Pat
I can just repeat what I said yesterday...
posted by
Nautikos
on June 19, 2015 at 3:36 PM
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PatB
Poverty just screams out of this well written story Sis.
posted by
WileyJohn
on June 19, 2015 at 3:19 PM
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I guess it was humiliating to receive money from the state in those days, Not so today some make a living out of working the system.
posted by
C_C_T
on June 19, 2015 at 10:36 AM
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