[Magdalen] Prayer Request--Family explosion

[ME Michaud]

To combine two threads,
another childhood friend has custody of her granddaughters,
whose father is in prison and whose mother was killed in a car crash.

My friend is an administrative assistant at the university,
her husband is a toll collector.
They're both beyond retirement age, but continue to work.

Regarding the girls' health insurance.
They are ineligible on my friend's employer-provided insurance,
which doesn't extend coverage to grandchildren.
Fortunately the State of New Hampshire has a program that covers them until
age 18.
That funding will probably go away with the new laws now being written.

Both girls are in high school.
Both girls work. The elder works at a stable, the younger as a babysitter.
But neither earns enough to pay for health insurance,.
-M