Childhood

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  Corner Liquor Store

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Medical Testing

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Holding the Bottle

  Mother: Tianna G
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  The Neighborhood

  Mother: Tianna G
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  A Close-up

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Halloween

  Mother: Crystal S

  When you're on a fixed income you gotta get stuff while you can. At Family Dollar they usually have cheap costumes in mid-September. Hers was like $8.50

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  Halloween

  Mother: Crystal S
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  Peace

  Mother: Crystal S

  He was saying peace to everybody. In this picture, from my son, he just wants to be a normal kid… same wants and needs. Because my son, he’s developmentally delayed from his medical problems.  He just wants to fit in. He just wants to be normal like everybody else...I figure you've gotta be gentle and you've gotta be nurturing, because the world isn’t … it’s not gentle, it’s not kind, it’s not easygoing at all. It’s hard, it’s tough, and it’ll knock you down every chance it gets, so I shelter them with as much love as I can right now.

   

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  Too big for his bed

  Mother: Janelle R
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  Needed pampering

  Mother: Angela S

  Her father is my first cousin…he raped his girlfriend’s oldest daughter. He’s in jail now, the only family she know is me. She'd never gotten her feet and nails done so I got her feet and nails done.

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  Too many children get killed

  Mother: Virginia G

  A kid got shot here right around the corner from a gun control billboard. They’re trying to send a message.  Nobody’s getting it.  You see?  I’m scared to take my kids out and be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  I stay in the house.

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  At the amusement park

  Mother: Angelica R
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  Hiding

  Mother: Angelica R
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  At the playground

  Mother: Marinette R
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  Growing up young

  Mother: Tiffany R

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  She needs dance classes

  Mother: Tiffany R
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  Brothers in the park

  Mother: Christina K
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  together on the stoop

  Mother: Christina K
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  Family trip to the zoo

  Mother: Myra Y
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  Concentrating

  Mother: Myra Y