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It's been a couple days since I have got to write. Times are getting harder for me I haven't ate in a couple days. You are beginning to see my ribs it's getting so bad at night I can't even sleep all I can think about is being hungry. Most nights I don't sleep all I do is cry because I feel nothing but pain. I left the Hooverville very early this morning some people may say I was up before the chickens which ran around our Hooverville. I have walked and walked for days. All the banks have closed. I over heard on someones talking radio That the banks collapsed and had over 200 million in deposit and all that money disappeared (pbs.org).there is nothing to do but to watch the hands of what used to be middle class families work until the cracks

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