Parker writes about how poverty has affected everything in her life; from the odor to her children’s future. She first describes how poverty has a negative influence on her physically, how there is always a horrible odor, and how she and her family can never get clean. She explains how exhausting it is to watch and protect her children. She then goes on to explain the mental wear-down that poverty has, and how most people don’t think about it. She writes about her and her family not having a future, and how this lack of hope causes mental anguish, and makes her question why she would push on and try to

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