In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.

But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA

was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.

Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?

When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?

I wouldn't even know where to start and I'm with the IRA.

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But first, a contemporary fable about a mother and daughter living on the edge in Florida.

It didn't take long for my mother to figure out what people thought about us.

I'd guessed it on my very first days of school.

If you were living in a car, it meant you were just pretending you were not I'd guessed it on my very first days of school.

If you were living in a car, it meant you were just pretending you were not a bag lady living

under a bridge.

People were always thinking homelessness was contagious.

Even with the Mercury's doors closed and the windows rolled up with a tiny space open at the top for air, we could still hear the crickets outside.

The croaking sound of frogs coming from the river mixed with the noise from cars and trucks driving up and down the highway.

My mother's hand reached toward me

through the space between the door and seat

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