Hello and to whom it may concern. I have written a story back in November but need to write it again because my paypal link had changed. However needing to get this story out again helps me. Perhaps the same thing happened in your family. I had asked that I needed 19,000.00 dollars but I realized that any amount if donated would be great. You see, growing up in my family I am the youngest of eight kids. My older siblings, not all of them, took advantage of me growing up to be their personal babysitter and housekeeper. Things got even more difficult as I got older. The day that I was to go to my High School dance I was 15. My dad suffered his third and devastating heart attack. I lost the best dad in the whole world because my parents had separated and divorced when I was 8. Dad was the glue that held the family together. So I ended up living with my older sister and her husband when I was 15. My other older sister and brother who were still in high school like me, went to live with my other older siblings. This was the worst decision ever! For me I ended up being a babysitter, maid and cleaner. My older sister even said, “we’re not paying you because we took you in and that should be payment enough” I couldn’t even believe what I heard. Flash forward I was 16 and my older sister and brother-in-law sat me down in the kitchen one day and showed me this pamphlet to an academy. An all girls school. I was so upset I started crying. Because they both said this will be good for me and they arranged an appointment to take me out there. This was a 3 hour drive. So I reluctantly went. I wasn’t impressed and was clearly upset because I would be living out there too. You lived in cubicles within a huge dorm room. We had taken a tour as well. I ended up going and cried the first two weeks I was there. However I slowly realized that I didn’t have to babysit anymore! I finally was happy even though this wouldn’t last. I was busy with things at school such as yearbook, other activities and studies when one day I received a letter from my sister about an inheritance my dad had put aside for me. Part of this was used to pay for my school and the rest was to go to me at 18. I was so busy I never read through the documents fully and signed them. I mailed them back home. Not realizing that the cheque would go to my sisters’ house. Flash forward to my graduation and my family was there. My older sister and brother-in-law showed up with a set of luggage for me. Luggage! I saw all the other girls receiving a car as their graduation gift. I said to my family, “are you trying to tell me something?” Anyway now that I moved home I was renting an apartment with the money from my restaurant job. It didn’t pay much back then. One day my older brother stopped in the restaurant for lunch and we started talking about lots of things and the topic of cameras came up. He told me about how I could get a camera and a tripod for it. I said there’s no way I could afford that. He said what about all that money dad gave you. You didn’t use it all at school, right? I said, “what money?” “The money dad left you for school and other things.” I never even thought of that. He asked me if I had the documents too. No I didn’t either. He said he could get them for me from the bank or I could. He also had a friend who was a lawyer too. Sure enough my brother got me the documents and when I checked them out, I was shocked! The signature on the document was not mine! I even wrote my signature out to show my brother too. He even said that it didn’t match. He had taken me to his lawyer friend too. I wrote the same thing out and she even said the same thing. She said if I wanted to start proceeding with this she would help me. This was crazy and I thought how could they do this to me? My brother even said, “didn’t you wonder where they got the money to build the extension on their house? The furniture?” I never even thought about it. It was crazy! However my other older brother found out too what had happened. He said he wanted to confront them. Plus, to make things worse he ended up taking the documents with him. I never saw those documents again! He was the other family member I never really got along with. Siblings are supposed to love and help one another. Not betray each other. He said when he confronted them, they wouldn’t even admit to anything. This was $19,000.00 gone that I had left! I was also living with my other older sister at the time who I could not stand either because she used me as a babysitter and maid too. To look after my nephew who was a baby at the time. I practically raised him from a baby to when he turned 6 years old. I had enough! I moved to a bigger city to escape all the horrible things my family did to me. In writing this story again like I wrote before any and all donations would be appreciated. I would save some of the money and use it to invest in education because you are never too old to learn something new. Plus just knowing I could keep ahead of my bills would be great too. This was money my Dad scrimped and saved for years for the 3 youngest kids to have must have been hard for him. Yes, my older sister and brother who were still in high school received money too. I think some of my siblings took advantage of that too. Anyway thank you for reading my story. Here’s to a better 2024. My new paypal link is paypal.me/minipanthermom512347