Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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what will you do when the money from the paycheck is gone?

I had studied English because I wanted to be a writer. I never had an expectation of becoming rich. I didn’t care about money. [...] Once I could no longer delay and the payments began, a question echoed through my head from the moment the day began, and often jolted me awake at night. I would look…

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we were nothing to these companies

After the dust settled on the collapse of the economy, on my family’s lives, we found ourselves in an impossible situation: we owed more each month than we could collectively pay. And so we wrote letters to Citibank’s mysterious P.O. Box address in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, begging for help, lette…

—p.85 Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me (82) missing author
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7 years, 3 months ago

what will you do when the money from the paycheck is gone?

I had studied English because I wanted to be a writer. I never had an expectation of becoming rich. I didn’t care about money. [...] Once I could no longer delay and the payments began, a question echoed through my head from the moment the day began, and often jolted me awake at night. I would look…

—p.86 Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me (82) missing author
You added a note
7 years, 3 months ago

we were nothing to these companies

After the dust settled on the collapse of the economy, on my family’s lives, we found ourselves in an impossible situation: we owed more each month than we could collectively pay. And so we wrote letters to Citibank’s mysterious P.O. Box address in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, begging for help, lette…

—p.85 Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me (82) missing author