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Maricela works as a waitress at Captain Benny's, an Austin seafood restaurant, on May 5, 2009. "I wanna be an example for my kids that you don't have to live off the government to survive," she told me in 2009. "It's good for the government to help me with a certain amount of help, but I think I also need to provide my share of responsibility."