Word: cosmetician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Living on welfare in San Diego was demeaning, for the usual reasons. Social workers sniffed about to see whether some man was living on her allowance. When she made $25 from theater work or a few off-and-on dollars for being a cosmetician in a mortuary, she would stubbornly report the money to the welfare people "because I didn't want my daughter seeing Mom lying." The welfare people would stubbornly subtract it from her next check. "Of course by that time the theater money would be gone." She admits that the system did what it was supposed...