![]() ![]() ![]() She wondered, not for the first time, how anybody could afford to grow old. She was working as a Home Depot cashier for $10.50 an hour, which barely paid for her $600-a-month trailer in Lake Elsinore, California. So instead she accepted an invitation to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving dinner.Ī couple of years later, May found herself close to the edge again. May hesitated - could she really envision blowing them up as well? That wasn’t an option. “And if I wake up, I’m going to light a cigarette and blow us all to hell.” I’m going to pass out and that’ll be it,” she told herself. ![]() There wasn’t enough room to move back in with them. Her unemployment benefits had run out, and her daughter’s family, with whom she had lived for many years while holding a series of low-wage jobs, had recently downsized to a smaller apartment. At sixty, the silver-haired grandmother lacked electricity and running water. On Thanksgiving Day of 2010, Linda May sat alone in a trailer in New River, Arizona. Weeks after leaving her job at Amazon’s warehouse in Fernley, Nevada, migrant worker Linda May still suffers from repetitive strain injuries. ![]()
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