We assume things about the poor, like they’re uneducated, drunk and contagious. Add a disability to the mix and you can add that they’re either a fraud, or beyond help.

Kathryn is poor and in a wheelchair. Been disabled six years and three months. I asked recently how her injury happened?
“How long you got?”
“How much you wanna tell?”
“Not everything, but I’ll at least give you the main parts.”
“Okay,” I said. “That’s how long I got, then.”

Kathryn started-out with a hell of a thorn in her flesh. Her mom shot her up with heroine at age three and her dad was never in the picture. Nonetheless, she somehow made it through high-school and college and eventually landed a job at a worldwide news conglomerate.

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