Welfare mother in New Jersey



I lived with this woman in the projects on and off. She had promised me that I could photograph the birth of her child, but unfortunately I missed the chance. The bedroom here was right next to one of the most noisy freeways in New Jersey and the bed tilted badly, so usually I preferred to sleep on the cold concrete floor in the "living room".

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