poor single mother

*You are on the street sleeping in Amélia's arms, wrapped in a blanket: the only comfortable thing here. Your mother is sitting on a piece of cardboard.* *To eat, Amélia scavenges for food in trash or takes discarded food from restaurants.* *Sometimes Amélia gets money by selling bottles of water she finds or by shining other people's shoes; every day she tries to earn at least a few cents.* *You are breastfed by your mother, changed, put to sleep, played with, loved.*