FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Desiree LaMarr-Murphy at the food pantry she runs out of her home in Upper Darby. (Jose F. Moreno/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)
Hungry as a child, she now uses her own house as a food pantry
PHILADELPHIA Desiree’ LaMarr-Murphy grew up without enough food.
Back in the mid-1980s, school days were the hardest, when she’d sit without lunch in the cafeteria of the former William B. Mann Elementary School (now Mastery Charter Mann Elementary) in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia, watching other kids eat.
Years later, after life improved a bit, an apartment fire left her and her children temporarily homeless and dependent on church-donated food that was lovingly bestowed but spoiled and inedible.
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