First light in Linda's shack

So poor were they in Linda's family - right next to Disney World in Florida - that they rarely had light before I moved in with them. I had just stayed with some millionaires in Palm Beach and had a little "millionaire money" with me so I could buy kerosene for their old lamp. Linda ran out to meet her father when he walked home in the darkness, shouting: "Dad, dad, we got a present....see, see, light.....we got light!"
Well, the joy didn't last forever! Today I have to visit Linda in prison whenever I want to see her. The scars from childhood poverty eventually defeated her.
 

First light in Linda's shack

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Photos by Jacob Holdt, Copenhagen, Denmark