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Inspiring Arkansas mom built a house for her kids using YouTube tutorials

After fleeing her second abusive marriage in 2007, Cara Brookins needed four walls that made her feel safe.

But she didn’t have the money to buy the kind of sanctuary she felt her four children, then aged 2 to 17, deserved. Driving past a tornado-ravaged house on the way to a cabin she had rented outside Little Rock, Arkansas, Brookins had a flash of inspiration. “You don’t often get the opportunity to see the interior workings of a house, but looking at these two-by-fours and these nails, it just looked so simple,” she told CBS News. “I thought, ‘I could put this wall back up if I really tried. Maybe I should just start from scratch.’”

Inspiring Arkansas mom built a house for her kids using YouTube tutorials

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  • Little Rock, AR, USA
  • Cara Brookins