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September 27, 2009Morgan earns minimum wage at the part-time job, but once he has a diploma, hell earn much better money than he earned in Galveston, he said.
A Good Living
Galveston was just a stepping stone, Nancy Wilson, who also worked at the Salvation Army before Hurricane Ike, said.
Wilson, who caught a bus to San Antonio after spending the night floating on air mattresses as the storm surge filled her house, now has a full-time job as a Dennys waitress.
Its a good living, she said.
Not that she doesnt miss Galveston. Wilson, a self-described former crackhead and prostitute from Texas City, came to Galveston eight years ago to get clean. In Galveston, she married her husband and buried a daughter, who died when she was only 24 days old.