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Raisin in the Sun, a la Shmoop. I don't know what I'm gonna do with this family

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of mine. I'm stuck in a tiny apartment with my kids Beneatha <Buh-NEATH-uh> and Walter,

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my daughter-in-law Ruth, and my grandson, Travis.

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And a lot of roaches.

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Travis is just the best, sweetest little baby boy in the whole history of the world...

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...but the others spend most of their time fighting like cats and dogs.

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Yep, my children have strong personalities,

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to put it lightly. Walter hates being a chauffeur, so he spends a lot of time escaping into a

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bottle and dreaming about opening a liquor store with his sleazy buddies.

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Then there's Beneatha, a rebel who busted out some serious disco hair to impress her

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Nigerian ex-boyfriend.

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She wants to be a doctor, even though most doctors these days are men, and our income

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is more suited to clown school. ...

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I thought Ruth was going to be the well-adjusted adult in the household, but then it turned

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out that she was secretly planning an abortion for a baby she couldn't afford.

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What's a gramma to do? Travis, I need some hug therapy!

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Sometimes I think only my plant understands me...

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There was a little bit of good news, though...my husband died!

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Oh, um, that wasn't good news, actually, but the ten thousand dollar insurance check

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sure was!

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Now all I had to do was figure out what to spend it on.

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I decided that this family needed a big change.

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So I bought us a nice little house in a nice white neighborhood.

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Walter didn't take it too well.

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But I made up with him. I gave him the rest of the insurance dough to deposit into bank

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accounts for Beneatha and him.

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Everybody got a fair share, and it was a win-win-win situation!  Not to toot my own horn, but

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check out those money-managing skills!

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Ruth was super-excited about moving into a new place with space for Travis and a baby.

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Even Walter seemed like less of a buzzkill.

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So what if our future neighbors-to-be hated us so much they wanted to buy back the house

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for big bucks? I was going to have my very own garden!

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But I should have known it was too good to last. Einstein here lost all of the money

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when his so-called "friend" ran off with it. ...

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That little setback left us with no liquor store, no med school, and no peace from sad

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sack Walter's moping and bellyaching. So much for the Younger family dreams.

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Just when I thought Walter couldn't sink any deeper, he dropped the bombshell that

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he accepted the offer to buy us out of our new home!

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Obviously he didn't inherit his mama's brains.

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So there we were on moving day, with a smug white guy in the house, and Walter selling

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us down the river. But for some reason, either because of the

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tongue lashing we'd given him or Travis' big puppy dog eyes...

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...Walter did a 180 and held his ground.

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Somebody call the moving van, because we're finally living our dream! Come on, Mr. Plant!

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