Solutions?

June 25, 1983: Our neighbors have been given us some options, more or less. Do we have anything to sell? No, my Tia has her 1940s furniture and I my books. We wouldn´t get much and advertising in a newspaper is expensive. Then, there´s Caritas, or Catholic charities. But, they give out food, and what we need is money. Until my mother´s check arrives and I get a job, what?