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Tammy’s Story Tammy’s everyday life was the struggle. She walked 10 miles just to get to work just for her kids to survive. Her kids don’t even respect her, her son made fun of her because she wears the same uniform to go to work. Her oldest son doesn’t even believe that he’s poor. He tries to impress his friends with saying that he doesn’t walk with his brother because of the way he dresses he only walks with him when he dresses nice like him. I think the circumstances that she live in is hard to be part of. She lives in the middle of nowhere and the way she and her sons explain how they live is heartbreaking. When she shows the house around and we see her kitchen it’s priceless on how small it is. The five sociological concepts that I
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