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(Clockwise from left) Shea Dunlop and her boyfriend Nick Lamberti host their friends Leo Lerner and Yenilet Rodriguez to fun and games at their home.

(Clockwise from left) Shea Dunlop and her boyfriend Nick Lamberti host their friends Leo Lerner and Yenilet Rodriguez to fun and games at their home.

PHOTO: JACKIE MOLLOY/NYTIMES

Christina Caron

NEW YORK – In July, Yenilet Rodriguez, 27, declined three invitations to attend birthday parties at restaurants and bars.

“I’m so broke,” said Rodriguez, who works in the publishing industry and lives in the Washington Heights neighbourhood in Manhattan. “I’ve hit my limit.”

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