Hello, I never thought that I would be doing this. I’m doing this so my fiancé and I could start our lives together during these hard times. This is my story.
I was born and raised in Brazil for the first 10 years of my life. Unfortunately my birth parents had many children and were already dirt poor so couldn’t take care of us. They also couldn’t keep track of all us kids and there was a lot of sexual and physical abuse going on. At 5 years old I went to an orphanage because my birth father was an alcoholic and tried to shoot my mother on multiple occasions, so all of my siblings and I were taken away. At 10 years my parents from US adopted all 7 of us, and since they already had 4, I became part of 11. Unfortunately this does not end the way I wish it did. Turns out my mother was an alcoholic and my adopted father was physically and both were verbally abusive. They decided to keep us from school, we never really fully got the right education. In 2016 my adopted mother passed away from alcoholism mixed with other illnesses. My adopted father took no time into kicking everyone out as fast as possible. He would verbally abuse everyone of us and call us stupid, and other none very nice names. He purposely would lock the doors if we went to work or anywhere so we wouldn’t come back. He also would purposely post pictures of our bedrooms and embarrass us on social media telling us to move out. It got so bad because I had nowhere to go and at one point I turned to, I’m ashamed to say, maybe trying to commit suicide. I just had nothing to live for anymore, I never knew what I did wrong. Fortunately my aunt and uncle took me in and my sister also took care of me after months of therapy that I should of gotten long time ago. My older brother had to adopt my younger brother. We all had to fend for ourselves. I had to figure out how to get a car, file taxes, and I know it sounds rediculous but some of us even had to get our own licenses and find a place to live here and there because we were never thought any real knowledge about the world. Please don’t feel bad, I’ve only gotten stronger since then. I am now 26 years old trying the best I can to keep figuring this life out. By the grace of God, there are people in my life right now that helped me get to my feet. I met my fiancé while working at a fast food restaurant, and he is such a hard working and amazing man! He just got his career job and I am working at a beauty place after going to beauty school since I don’t have a degree. We’ve been engaged now for 1 year and 6 months and we decided not to have a wedding because we just don’t have the money. We’re trying to put it towards an apartment or house closer to his job. But with everything going on, we can’t afford anything since the inflation is so bad. He has to leave his parents house as soon as possible because his father told him he had to find his own place. He is also driving 1 hour and 30 minutes everyday to work and the area where he works is even more expensive than where we currently are. Im sorry that I’m asking for financial help, I wish I really didn’t have to, and please do not feel bad for me, but also think about every other children that will also be adopted and be on the same situation that I was in. One day I hope to have an organization to advocate for a better system to be put in place to make sure that adoptions really do need in happy endings! I wish I could tell my full story to the world, but these days it’s very hard to be heard! Thank you so much for even just praying for us if not donating, anything helps! Have a blessed day! God is hood!
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