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...Square shop and ask for Joe, the on-premises body-piercer. Another woman, who appears to be one of Joe's regular customers, purchases a pair of fishnet stockings. A portly gentleman in a parka and workboots treats himself to a smashing new set of riding crops, which the cashier carefully wraps in black tissue paper...
...eight. The family moved around a lot, with stops in Brooklyn, New York, and Landover, Maryland. "Sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from crying," says Lawrence's sister (and personal assistant) Rae Proctor. "We were poor. Mother raised us, six of us, when she was working as a cashier." Lawrence made his family laugh, then he made people on his street laugh. Then, realizing that he could earn a living at this, he headed off to the comedy-club circuit. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was impressed with Lawrence's "natural charm and presence" and hired him as host...
...women saw their relationship as a chance to turn around misdirected lives. Sharon, a high school dropout, works part time as a cashier at a Winn- Dixie supermarket. April, a recovering alcoholic who served in the military, manages a deli. They dreamed of buying a house, settling into middle-class stability. They hoped, one day, to give Tyler a younger sister or brother born to April by artificial insemination. Now they feel that all their dreams, and much of their sense of family, are "on hold." The loss is all the more painful because the "parent" who challenged them...
...from such artificial, removed-from-life solutions. "I know everything in the White House connects to what I'm doing, but it seems so far away," says John Jackson, a summa cum laude graduate of Howard University, who has been unable to find a summer job, even as a cashier. Others express a sense of generational siege. "The AARP ((American Association of Retired Persons)) has the power to mortgage our future," says Joe Ross Edelheit, 21, a former field coordinator for presidential candidate Paul Tsongas. "Our generation is under attack...
...Another cashier said, "A lot of people have been buying vitamin...