The conviction in Laura Holbrook’s words masks the fear she has lived with for a year: “I won’t be homeless with five kids,” she says.
Holbrook has worked with a lawyer and housing counselors, fighting to keep her Gaithersburg home. She says she prays daily that she and her children, ages 4 to 15, will be able to remain — despite the foreclosure notices she has received, the photographers who routinely snap pictures of the house for her lender and the prospective buyers who unabashedly survey the property.
“It’s been so stressful,” Holbrook said. “It’s not even embarrassing. . . . You feel like you are floating and don’t know when you are going to pop and go to the ground.”
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