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Before I gave up on Los Angeles and its obscene cost of living, money was really tight. More than half of my take home pay went to rent (buying a house was out of the question) and I had an hour and a half commute every day, fueled by gas that cost nearly $4 a gallon. Almost every penny of what would have been disposable income went to day care. I'm the single mother of a 3-year-old son and a daughter who will turn 6 in a couple of weeks. I tried to shield my children from all that. They were far too young to be burdened with my financial woes. But every once in a while I had to fess up, like when I pulled my daughter out of gymnastics classes because we just couldn't afford them anymore. A few months before we moved to Bakersfield I forgot to give my daughter her school lunch and snack money. I had it. It was just an oversight on a hectic morning. My kindergartener got  lunch anyway because, I later learned, she was so frightened by what she perceived to be our dire poverty...
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