Carla Flores-Rubio pauses to enjoy the unusual silence in her little, immaculate bedroom, which she shares with her two sons, one of whom is 14 and the other is 4.
Her sons and the roommate who shares the second bedroom make her little, two-bedroom apartment off a busy street in Salem pleasantly noisy most of the time so that they can all pay the rent.
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