I told my cousin, you only got pregnant to trap her man into staying with you.

And it didn't go over well.

Hey guys, this is my story from seven years ago.

It happened around the time when I first moved to Vegas.

I have a cousin who has seven kids, and since I'd just moved, I hadn't seen them since the youngest was in diapers. Now,

this cousin also has a sister, who has exactly one child. For that one kid, she gets food stamps,

child support, and she doesn't freaking work. She's the kind of person who trades their food stamps

for cash and blows her money on stupid crap, like trips to California and green herb to smoke.

She literally only cares about someone if she can use them.

As a contrast, my cousin with the seven kids works her bus off.

She's a little embarrassed that she gets government help because she feels responsible for having

all seven of her children.

But no matter how hard she works, she really only just makes enough for the bills,

and the food stamps she gets buys just enough food to last a month.

Growing kids eat a lot, if you didn't know that already.

Mind you, I was 20, turning 21.

And I always had a fair bit of money left after every paycheck. My bills were paid on time,

and I'd help my mother out from time to time as well. We visited the kids one day, and the third

youngest told me that Christmas was coming, but he is excited that they get to eat good food on

Christmas. These kids live off ramen and ravioli. Hearing him say this shattered my heart.

All of her kids are well behaved for the most part and they deserve a good Christmas.

I started asking them what they wanted.

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