Needs: Meal sponsorship, water filter
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"Here look at me," Lucia stands up from her chair and bends over, putting her hand out for an invisible cane. "Look at me, my back, I'm all bent over."
More than this, she says, she can't see, her feet hurt, she's sure she has gastritis and her bones ache and ache. She gestures at the sky when talking about her pills, "no relief! No relief!" Or her few possessions, "I have nothing, nothing, nothing."
She lives with her granddaughter and her husband, who plan to move soon to a house at the river. Lucia doesn't want to go. "They don't have any light! What am I supposed to do in the dark?" Though she has her own piece of land there too. "I feel bad because they let me stay here with them, but I don't want to move in to the new house. There's no one else to care for me, so what choice do I have? The rest of my days, alone in the dark."
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