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Immigrant
families moved frequently, either because they were seeking lower
rents or a larger apartment, or because they had been evicted.
The
evicted woman kept staring at the litter of cheap things in which
she must have taken no end of pleasure and pride while she had
been gathering them one by one in the making of her home, now
left in pieces on the street, a symbol of eviction and destitution.
Occasionally, she would make the last sacrifice. She brought out
a china plate from the folds of her dress and placed it on one
of the chairs. People would drop pennies perhaps even nickels
and dimes into that plate--enough to save her from being wholly
destitute.
Ganz,
Rebels, 77-78
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