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This personal and provocative look at poverty in America is shaped around the author's own engaging stories, song lyrics, and poems, including the well-known ""Call Me Child of God ...Not Those People"". The story of her growing up in a large Irish Catholic working-class family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, draws together the experiences of living in poverty, the role of the church and music in her life, and the many remarkable people who populated her life and the lives of her family.

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"""Julia Dinsmore will not allow us to hide behind the statistics of hunger and poverty in our country, protected by those dispassionate numbers. In telling her stores, and her own, Julila brings us face-to-fact with people hwo know poverty all too well..."""

""Julia Dinsmore will not allow us to hide behind the statistics of hunger and poverty in our country, protected by those dispassionate numbers. In telling her stores, and her own, Julila brings us face-to-fact with people hwo know poverty all too well...""

Julia Dinsmore will not allow us to hide behind the statistics of hunger and poverty in our country, protected by those dispassionate numbers. In telling her stores, and her own, Julila brings us face-to-fact with people hwo know poverty all too well...

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Julia K Dinsmore is a freelance writer, storyteller and singer/songwriter. As a child she lived in poverty and as an adult she has found herself living below the poverty line. Articulate, clear-visioned and endowed with a marvellous sense of justice and humour, she makes frequent presentations to college classes, church groups and civic organisations. She lives in Minnesota, USA.

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