At one point in her life, Lynn Charley was raising four girls and two boys by herself on the east side of New Mexico's Navajo Nation.

She remembers the constant pressure to meet her children's basic needs, but perhaps nothing shielded them from the hard-up circumstances of that time in their lives more than the joy of a new toy.

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