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Between Doors: Airbnb Living during the Pandemic and Death in the family
After my son passed in Arizona myself and family moved from Arizona to California, we all lived homeless door to door at Airbnb's. We then found shelter, six months later, then we finally moved into our own home. Then more deaths in the…
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…One particularly dreary afternoon, after a week in an Airbnb one of her grandchildren asked her quietly, "Nana, when can we have a place that feels like ours again?" The question, so innocent yet so profound, had pierced La Shele’s heart. She had no answer, only a tightening in her chest and the familiar sting of unshed tears. It was during this low ebb, when the hope that had fueled their initial journey to California seemed to have all but evaporated, that a sliver of light began to break through the clouds. It wasn't a dramatic revelation, no sudden windfall or miraculous discovery.