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City boy grows up fast to give family a chance
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... she said, but then the cancer returned. By last year, she said, she was too sick to work; by the summer, so sick "I couldn't barely get up to go to the bathroom." Bell found herself trying to calculate an impossible equation: how to care for four boys on a fixed income of about $400 a month in child support. Friends gave her hefty breaks on rent, and the boys -- three sons aged 7, 8 and 10 and a 10-year-old nephew she takes care of -- pitched in around the house. Read more: http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?...

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Suburban Guerrilla — In one of the poorest cities in America, a little boy helps his family: Bell found herself trying to calculate an impossible equation: how to care for four boys on a fixed income of about $400 a month in child support. Friends gave her hefty breaks on rent, and the boys — three sons aged 7, 8 and 10 and a 10-year-old nephew she takes care of — pitched in around the house. “They do everything I ask them to whenever I ask them to,” Bell said, especially Chris, the oldest. She said he cleans the bathroom and hand washes their ...