She had to wear a colostomy bag for three months before it was surgically removed in January. Francine has remained stoical about her wrenching illness. Indeed, rather than dwelling on her recent misfortunes, she prefers to focus on the positive. She is tall, elegant and attractive, and has regained most of her energy. Now, however, she and Marcus must face a horde of difficult financial problems.
Income is near the top of that list.
After he was laid off by the CBC, Marcus became a freelance camera technician. And then I spend the next three weeks trying to plan how I'll get a day off. He believes his best decision was purchasing the house he now shares with Francine. He bought it four years ago in the same middle-class neighborhood that he grew up in. Marcus, a gentle and soft-spoken man, loves the old neighborhood and one of his major goals is to pay off the mortgage as quickly as possible.