A Boring Dystopia

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This 7-year-old has a lemonade stand to pay for her mom's tombstone (www.al.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/aboringdystopia

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[–] Agent641 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Maybe. Maybe she felt powerless and wanted to do something, anything, to feel like she was contributing during the process. Without more context its hard to say. People act in weird ways when loved ones die, maybe she's channeling her pain into something productive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Valid point. I wish I could read the article, but I'm not disabling my dns server to do it.

[–] WoahWoah 1 points 8 months ago

Karli had not had insurance, and on top of the grief felt from her loss, her family was tasked with thinking of ways to pay for her funeral costs.

“We started doing stuff to come up with money to cover it all, and Emouree started this little lemonade stand,” Bordner said.