Their kids watched Nickelodeon. Then her husband got laid off. Times got tight again. And then her husband was killed and Lakisha found herself back down on Third and Mitchell. Chandra was an honor student with scholarships to some of the finest colleges in America when she fell in love with the wrong guy, with whom she had four children.
Children have to eat.
Pride wouldn't let her take any more from her parents, so she applied for AFDC and food stamps. They eventually cut her back to just food stamps because Chandra worked. Chandra almost always worked. She worked for two and a half years at Federal Express during the day while she studied computer repair in the evenings. She worked at Bryce Inc. while attending Shelby State.