He says he started the account for the same reason he wanted to be a teacher and run for office. He wanted to see people who looked like him. lebron grey In the pre-coronavirus world, 24-year-old Alexis had plans. In April, she was going to move out of her parents’ house and into an apartment with her best friend. She would spend the summer working and attending school; in the fall, she would complete her associate’s degree. But then the pandemic broke out, and her parents, who work as a house cleaner and a construction worker, both saw their work dry up. Suddenly, Alexis was the only person working in her household, and it was up to her to take care of expenses for her parents and two teenage sisters. Then, on April 1, she was let go from her job as a preschool teacher for a nonprofit school serving homeless children. Her health insurance disappeared overnight, as did her family’s only source of income. lebron grey A few days before the August 2020 primary election in Florida, the universe spoke to Eldon. lebron grey Alexis, who asked to withhold her last name to speak candidly, said these stresses made her grow up quickly. She spent hours on the phone trying to negotiate a discount for her family’s cell service. She mapped out food banks to visit, and when her aunt received a couple of pounds of carrots, she looked up recipes to make use of them. She budgeted for gas and bills and groceries. She helped her mom explain the situation to her younger sisters, telling them that they would have to wait to get new shoes or go to a thrift store. She worried about the homeless children she had taught at the nonprofit preschool — if she was struggling, how were they doing? She and the other teachers had been the ones making sure those children ate. Who was doing that now? She struggled with transitioning herself and her sisters to online school: Where were they supposed to print things? Would her biology lab kit arrive in the mail in time for her to pass the class? She went from being the person “who gave resources to other people to the person using them.” lebron grey
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