“We didn’t deserve to be poor, any more than we deserved to be rich. Poverty is a circumstance, not a value judgment. .. That the judgment of the disadvantaged comes not just from conservative politicians and Internet trolls. It came from me, even as I was living it.” ~Darlena Cunha extracted from Washington Post
(Darlena Cunha is a former television producer turned stay-at-home mom to twin girls. She writes for The Huffington Post and Thought Catalog.)
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