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My mom is unemployed at the moment, because she also has IBS and fibro (and migraines and arthritis), so she needed to quit her old job working in a greenhouse (it was making her worse). She's having trouble finding a job, and money is tight on just my dad's salary, since I have two teenage brothers. My mom felt so bad that my youngest brother (he's 16) had to pay for part of his marching band camp at school this summer out of his money from working since my parents couldn't afford it. My parents don't help me pay for school other than co-signing on my student loans, because they don't have the money either. If they ever get the rest of the money from the settlement for the car accident my father was in almost 4 years ago, they MAY be able to help me out some. Both sets of my grandparents are retired, so I don't want to bother them. My parents and grandparents all live in Virginia, so they're a good 5-7 hours away, so they're not particularly geographical close enough to help either.

I think part of it is I'm so used to be able to support myself, I've been doing it for almost 5 years now.

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Melissa
Friendship is thicker than blood. ~Rent

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