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The Costs of Living

Sorry, kids, we're not millionaires

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Youngna Park
Jun 02, 2025
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The Bodega

The kids would like me to pick them up from after school because I’m the parent more likely to let them go to the bodega and get a snack on the way home. There is an area of the shop full of precariously stacked cardboard boxes of mass packaged snacks, presumably sourced from Costco. They offer 50 cent bags of chips, popcorn, tiny Oreos, and m…

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