BC Advantage - 2023 Issue 3

Verno's Voice: Debt Collection

I was born into debt collection.  In 1953, both my parents quit high school in their final year.  In 1953, if you quit school, you were a social pariah; no one would hire you, because it was deemed that if you quit school, you would also quit your job.  My parents did find work at a small mom and pop diner, but it barely paid the rent, so we moved to a run-down apartment next to the railroad tracks.  The medical bills for my birth were overdue, and the debt collectors came to our apartment...

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