Dark Path
One more problem that wouldn’t go away was that we didn’t have enough money to cover everything. It became progressively more difficult to put food on the table on a consistent basis as a direct result of the mounting amount of bills that continued to come in from all different directions.
There were many evenings when she was compelled to go to bed without having eaten due to the fact that she did not have sufficient funds to purchase a meal that satisfied her hunger. The fact that her mother quickly gravitated toward the seedier aspects of life was a factor that did not help matters.