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On a sweltering summer day, Carrie Blanton and her son, Tyler, of Westerly, walk to the laundromat and the grocery store. Blanton's car was repossessed and she had to get her errands done on foot. Providence Journal photo / Gretchen Ertl

In a matter of months, Carrie Blanton fell from a lifetime of being self-sufficient to dirt poor. Divorced and caring for a sick infant full-time, she's dependent on the government, churches and charities to survive.

Read Journal staff writer Paul Davis' story Sunday on projo.com, and in the Providence Sunday Journal

Watch the video: 'It feels like every day's the last.' In the days before Mathew's surgery, Blanton has him baptized

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