Christmas is two days away, and a skimpy Charlie Brown tree sits against a plain wall in the basement apartment Yubisay Fonesca shares with her husband and six-year-old son. There’s a sack of miniature Milky Way candy bars on the window sill for guests. After a hard year, Yubisay is eager to share something sweet.
The family lost most of their furniture when Aurora police shut down their old apartment building in August. But now they have a couch again, a TV and black trash bags full of clothes from the move.
Lemon cleaner chokes out cigarette smoke from the hall. They don’t know how they will make rent, but at least they have a home to celebrate Christmas…