Hunger Pushed Her Further Than She Ever Imagined Nine-year-old Maddie Turner felt the weight of the world pressing down on her small shoulders. For two days straight, her little brothers had been crying from hunger inside the thin, drafty trailer they called home. Their mother, weak and unable to work, didn’t have even a slice…
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