She gets free tuition and a monthly stipend. In exchange, she lives and works alongside the students. We have plenty of fun. We're by no means a saintly picture. While the others horse around in the kitchen, waiting on dinner, Abernathy shows off the three-story house they decorated.
Purple carpet covers most of the floor.
Donated, of course. One room is set aside for prayer, with no furnishings except candles, a wooden cross, guitars, bongos and big pillows scattered on the floor. That's how little anybody wants to live in East Wheeling. It's got a bad rap. In the '80s and even in the early '90s, Wheeling was a midway point for drug trafficking.