"She
wakes to the sound of breathing. The smaller children lie tangled
beside her, their chests rising and falling under winter coats and wool
blankets. A few feet away, their mother and father sleep near the mop
bucket they use as a toilet. Two other children share a mattress by the
rotting wall where the mice live, opposite the baby, whose crib is
warmed by a hair dryer perched on a milk crate..."
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