Last year, Rome-based photographers Nadia Shira Cohen and Paulo Siqueira, along with their young child Rafa, moved for a period of two weeks into a room at the Remington Inn near Orlando to tell the stories of some of the five hundred families living out of Florida motels, sometimes moving between rentals and the adjacent woods or homeless shelters.
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Fierro was hospitalized with COVID-19 in late April and within days was put on a ventilator, according to campaign founder Michelle Mattioli, a friend of one of Fierro s daughters. Nicole was an amazing mother, Mattioli said. She raised some of the most amazing people I know. She was also one of the most hard working, caring and selfless people I know. She went above and beyond to always make you feel like one of her own. She’d give you the shirt off her back if you needed it.
Born in Paterson, Fierro lived in Haledon before settling down in Hawthorne where she raised her children, Glenn Rousset, Judy Rousset, Christopher Rousset, Gianna Soto and the late Albert Soto,