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This is how poor we were. If I can do it, you can.
“We don’t have the money to help you furnish your new place,” my grandmother tells me as if I had asked her.
I would never. We don’t have the money is the #1 phrase I remember hearing since I could remember things.
We never lived in a car, and I barely ever went hungry. I know there are people out there, kids out there, who’ve had it worse than me.
But we did spend a few months living in one of the basements of the National Statistical Institute building where my grandma worked. She arranged it. I’m not sure what we would’ve done had that not worked out.
And I have felt hunger. Not the “I don’t know what I want” hunger. The “there’s nothing to eat” hunger.
Stale bread and butter.
My dad and uncle continued to live together in my grandparents’ apartment after my grandparents moved to a nearby village.
My dad and uncle rarely went grocery shopping. For one thing, they didn’t have the money to do it properly, but also, they didn’t feel they needed it. They both worked 10–12 hour shifts and just picked up something to eat on the way back home.