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Destiny counted the crumpled bills and coins she had collected and stuffed into her most convenient pocket.  She even got a twenty dollar bill which she spent for food for her two men waiting patiently back there in their tent.  She had dropped the change from MacDonald's among the day's contributions.  Now she divided up what she needed for cigarettes and a coke in the morning and pocketed that apart, She had promised her dog a bone from the dollar store and he didn't forget any promise that involved food or a chew toy.  He would pout for days if she showed up empty handed.  She didn't have enough money for some things she really needed so they would have to wait till tomorrow or maybe longer.   She wondered how she would ever get used to not getting a check every so often more than the first of the month.  But she would.  She was never a quitter and was not going to start being one now.