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Episode 009: The Price of Normal

Episode 009: The Price of Normal

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 How much does normal cost? If you're Kate Gibbons — forty-one, single mother, Glenorchy, Tasmania — the answer is approximately twenty-three dollars. That's what her nineteen-year-old son Joel spends on a Woolworths bag of chicken schnitzel, sea salt chips, fresh broccoli, and a tub of vanilla ice cream on a Tuesday evening when neither of them can afford it and both of them need it more than they can say. Twenty-three dollars. In a household where the electricity bill is overdue and the credit card is at its limit and thirty-seven dollars is supposed to stretch across seven days of meals. Twenty-three dollars that Joel doesn't have, spent on food they don't buy, prepared in a kitchen neither of them can comfortably enter since this morning, when a government document with a name Kate had hidden for nineteen years landed between them and detonated. That's the moment. Not the revelation. Not the lie. The meal that follows.
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