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Growing Up In Poverty: 6 Unfiltered Stories That Will Bring Tears To Your Eyes.

Poor Child Crying Holding Knees On Ground

2. Just trying to get by.

“Growing up my family had it’s moments of struggle. Our public transport system at the time had tickets which were simply hole-punched with the date and month, not the year. So we’d save them and store them neatly in envelopes marked by month. After a few years of saving tickets we pretty much had free train and bus travel for the next 10 years… until they changed the ticketing system to electronically stamped tickets with bar codes.”

Via redditor SardonicNihilist

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