Meet the new head of the family: he’s 17, broke, and his roof is leaking
Imagine being a junior in high school and suddenly having to parent your two younger brothers because the system cut off your parents' life-saving meds.
Three brothers are currently trying to figure out how to survive in a house with a leaking roof and zero income. Their parents passed away recently after losing access to their basic HIV medications.
In a world with actual space tourism, people are still dying of highly treatable chronic illnesses because of bureaucratic hurdles and poverty.
The oldest brother, who is literally seventeen, is now playing dad, doing the grocery shopping, and trying to keep the rain from coming through the ceiling. It is the kind of bleak reality that makes all those corporate healthcare commercials look like a sick joke.
Somehow, society expects teenagers to carry the weight of absolute systemic failure without breaking.
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