"She’d been a long time finding the one-bedroom apartment we rented, and Joey’s family owned the building. I didn’t know it then, but Mom was, for many, an undesirable tenant: a single mother with two children. The working-class world we lived in had little tolerance for women like her. She’d gone on welfare after having to quit her job because she couldn’t keep a steady babysitter. She told me, years later, that the women who babysat us were usually married women with kids of their own.
Sometimes, I wonder if Joey chose me because he knew it would be harder for Mom to tell."
~ Kim Vose
"The Boogeyman"
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