The Best Stories You've nEver Read #69

The day they came for Addie Polk's house -- New Yorker

Peter J. Boyer's poignant story about the day that a sheriff's deputy in Akron, Ohio came to evict 90-year-old Addie Polk from her home. Polk once owned her home outright but after her husband died, predatory lenders talked her into squandering her equity. In despair, Ms. Polk turned a gun on herself, but survived to become a cause celebre. 

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-- Dick Weiss