Edda Lopez-Lennards wears a brave smile despite the threat of foreclosure on her Bronx home.
The bravest smile in New York belongs to a 59-year-old Bronx woman who had it all before one of the worst runs of bad luck in city history.
Many of Edda Lopez-Lennards’ woes reflect the larger problems weighing heavily on the whole country: a subprime mortgage, sudden unemployment, no health coverage in the face of debilitating illness.
Add to that untimely widowhood. A mother with advanced Alzheimer’s. No heat. A basement that floods with raw sewage. A Con Ed turnoff notice.
But even as her foreclosed home is slated for auction next week, she smiles with the kind of grit and faith that we may need to get through to better times.
“God has never let me down yet,” she said Friday. Read more..
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