SPC Rodriguez

• In September, Melinda returned to Fort Bragg, NC, to get the house ready for Angel’s return in January 2010. With Angel still gone, it was too painful for Melinda to open the boxes of Angel’s clothes, so she continued to store them in a closet. Three weeks before his return, Melinda began moving the boxes in the house to wash and put his clothes away only to find that most of them were covered in mold. Melinda was mortified. She contacted the storage place, but per her agreement, she only had 30 days to make a claim, and that time had passed. With the holidays, ongoing bills, and her children needing new clothes (due to ongoing growth spurts), Melinda knew she couldn’t afford to replace the clothes and sobbed knowing her husband would have no clothes when he came home.
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