Whatever it took to provide for her family, Alicia Gaston was willing to do it. The devoted mum lived in Windham, Maine, with her husband Noah and their three young children – and family was everything to her.
Alicia, 34, had chosen to homeschool their two older children, aged eight and nine, and she planned to do the same with their youngest when the time came.
Gaston, 33, had just left his job as a chef and was struggling to find another role, so it was getting hard to make ends meet.
Alicia was naturally creative, so she turned her hand to making extra money by knitting scarves and selling them. She was also the one who family went to for homemade birthday cakes, so it came as no surprise that she could use her talents to support her
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