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Christie Chisholm
Every morning Peggy Monroe scours the skin of her six children for bedbugs. The King's Inn--a cheap motel off East Colfax Avenue in Aurora CO, where the family has lived for about a year--is infested with the bloodsucking insects. Here, Chrisholm features the Monroes, are one of two families profiled by The Denver Post for a project on homeless schoolchildren called "Trying to Live, Trying to Learn." Over the last decade, the number of homeless students in the state more than tripled, from 7,000 to some 23,000. For two and a half months, photographer Joe Amen and reporter Jennifer Brown visited the Monroes every day, observing the kids as they walked a mile along East Colfax to school in the mornings and sitting with the family as they ate dinners of canned spaghetti and soup.
