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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"However, one day May hoped that they would get out of this situation and be able to live in a quiet house of their own without having to worry about the monthly expenses, which were definitely drowning them. The only thing she was more concerned about was a bad cough that Peter had been showing, and in her soul's pain she knew he needed medication and a pediatrician, but there was no way they could afford it. They were earning 700 dollars a month with too much effort and harming Peter's childhood so the weekends were destined to sleep and rest and occasionally really enjoy life. br /More than 80% was for the rent of the modest apartment and the rest for strictly limited utilities, some TV and food, sometimes there was no food, but God would never let them down./p