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Help me help my daughter
I am a career restaurant bartender and I have been struggling financially ever since the pandemic started and things have just gotten gradually worse and worse and I could deal with that fact if it was just me that was suffering but unfortunately it's not. I have a 10-year-old daughter who means everything to me and she is very kind and loving and always wants to help people and in the past year she has had to deal with so many heartaches and disappointments and super difficult situations and she still manages to smile and be there for me and help me anyway that she can and it breaks my heart knowing that some of her struggles or a lot of her struggles or because of me. I have worked my butt off her entire life and since the pandemic started I have worked even harder to try to catch up and get us out of some of the situations that we are now in and the harder I try the more I fail it seems like or every time I take one step forward I fall three steps back. About a year ago my daughter lost her father to federal prison hehe refused to cooperate with the feds and turn against his brothers and because of that he got put in federal prison and that was extremely extremely difficult for my daughter and she misses him so much and he was an amazing dad to her and she has a really hard time with him not being around. Shortly after that we got evicted because again due to the pandemic I couldn't afford to pay my rent I did pay my rent even going through the pandemic I just was usually late or a little bit short but I was always paying rent and then the sharp payments piled up so much that it got to a point of I was a month behind on rent and I got evicted. I got us evicted from the only house my daughter has ever known because her father and I moved into that house about 6 months before she was due and we lived there ever since. She loves that house and she was very upset when we got evicted and we then kind of couch surfed or stayed wherever we could for a while until one of my co-workers had a couple of rooms in their house open up because they usually rent their rooms out to people and they offered for us to come move in with them which I would have thought would have been great news and it was at the time but I've since discovered that my coworker has some severe mental issues and you never know what you're going to get with her. One moment she could be super nice super friendly everything and then the very next second be just completely rude and s***** and screaming and cussing and it makes the living situation extremely uncomfortable for my daughter and I. On top of that, Jazzy (that's my daughter's name) can't play anywhere in the house or make any noise or my coworker gets mad. If my coworker runs into jazzy in the kitchen or living room, she talks badly about me to jazzy and that really hurts jazzy and makes her mad. Jazzy can't be a kid in my co-workers house. On top of that, when we were first evicted I thought I was going to move in with my best friend and she ended up having a meltdown and when Jasmine and I left so I could go to work my former best friend I should say change the locks on the house and locked us out of her house where all of our belongings were and she proceeded to put everything that Jazzy and myself own into a storage unit without my knowledge or my approval and I have not been able to afford the storage unit so now I owe close to $2,000 and if I don't pay that within a week everything that Jazzy and I own will get auctioned in the storage unit and I can't let her lose everything that she owns. She has been such a trooper through all of this, but I know that she is having a very difficult time and it kills me. She doesn't deserve any of this and she is having to suffer because of me and my financial struggles. She has done everything she can to help me including doing gig work with me and sometimes sitting in the car for hours with me while I'm trying to do deliveries and make extra money. She has given me every last dollar she has to her name and she has tried to cheer me up when things get too rough for me to deal with. She is my world and means everything to me and just want to fix some of these situations and let her be a kid and not worry about adult problems and I just want to cheer her up and make her feel better after the last year she has dealt with. I am asking for help to be able to get us into our own place which with the eviction is really hard to do unless you have a really large deposit and since we live in Colorado, it is. Very expensive to live here and I haven't been able to come even close to coming up with any sort of deposit to get us our own place. So I'm asking for help in order to get us our own place, save our storage with all of our belongings that will be up for auction in a week as well as I would love to take my daughter to go visit her dad in the federal prison but unfortunately they sent him out of state so we would have to travel to go see him and I am hoping to get to take her to do a couple of fun things from the drive out to go see him so that she can forget about all the bad events that have happened in the past year and just be a kid even if just for a couple of hours because she deserves it so I'm asking for help to fix all of these situations and I thank each and everyone for reading this anyone who is willing to help us with our situation I thank you truly from the bottom of my heart and words will never be able to express the gratitude I will have. Thank you all again for your thoughts and your prayers and your help.
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