“Did we do something to deserve this?” 22-year-old Bianca Jeannot asked herself, thinking back to when she saw the world crumbling right before her eyes.
Jeannot, who was born in Manhattan and raised in the South Bronx, said that everything started to change for her family when she was 4 or 5 years old: her mother could no longer afford to pay rent. Her family had to move from “friends to family homes, finally shelters.”
She was homeless for seven years, she said.
But the worst was yet to come. On Feb. 24, 2012, Jeannot’s mother, Myrna Jeannot, passed away due to a cardiac arrest and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), “which means her lungs stopped functioning on their own,” she told Epoch Times. Jeannot was then 18.
