The Night Margaret Stopped Running

Margaret Chen had tried everything. Three attorneys, two appeals, and eighteen months of fighting the wrongful foreclosure on her family's home in Decatur, Georgia. Every door slammed shut. Every phone call ended with "I'm sorry, there's nothing more we can do." On a Tuesday evening in March, she sat at her kitchen table with a stack of papers she could no longer read through her tears, her back literally against the wall of a house she was about to lose.…