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01-14-2017, 09:01 PM
Single mom builds a house from the ground up using YouTube tutorials
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Your dream home is apparently only a year's worth of physical labor, cost of supplies, and a work crew of children away— if you want it badly e**ugh.
In 2008, (https://carabrookins.com/)single mother of four Cara Brookins felt trapped: she was simultaneously living with a violent and abusive husband and being stalked by a mentally ill ex. She knew that even if she left, she couldn't afford to buy a house big e**ugh for her family.*
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It was a classic "life gives you lemons" situation if your definition of lemons is like, really horrifying. As Brookins explains on her website (https://carabrookins.com/), she took her lemons, her kids, a bank loan for an acre of land and construction supplies, and she built a house. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/14/single-mom-builds-house/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Your dream home is apparently only a year's worth of physical labor, cost of supplies, and a work crew of children away— if you want it badly e**ugh.
In 2008, (https://carabrookins.com/)single mother of four Cara Brookins felt trapped: she was simultaneously living with a violent and abusive husband and being stalked by a mentally ill ex. She knew that even if she left, she couldn't afford to buy a house big e**ugh for her family.*
SEE ALSO: 10 inspiring moments from Barack Obama's presidency in GIFs (http://mashable.com/2017/01/11/obama-presidency-gifs/)
It was a classic "life gives you lemons" situation if your definition of lemons is like, really horrifying. As Brookins explains on her website (https://carabrookins.com/), she took her lemons, her kids, a bank loan for an acre of land and construction supplies, and she built a house. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/01/14/single-mom-builds-house/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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