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On the International OK Storytime podcast station.

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My family left me without a home, so I'm cutting them off.

Ooh.

Yousa.

I'm a student.

My parents make enough money that when I went through student finance to get my

maintenance loan, I was told I could only get the minimum just over 3K a year, because finance is calculated from what your parents earn, and there's an assumption that your parents will help you out. I mean, if you're a dependent, maybe. By the way, this comes from bitter business, and if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R-slash-OK Storytime subreddit. So, I'm on a high- a high intensity course and I wasn't sure how I'd be able to

balance studying and working. So when I found out I was going to get the minimum, I told my parents

I wanted to either take the coming year to save up and then go to my first choice university a year

later than planned or go to my second choice now because I wouldn't be able to afford to live

in the city my first choice is in. My parents then said that they would pay my rent if I went to my

first choice on schedule. They set me up at a studio flat, so all I had to do was get a part-time job

to cover the cost of food and bill. On 18th of February, my 20th birthday, they called me and said that I was relying on

them too much and needed to find out what the real world was like by earning my own money.

So they would cover my rent and phone for that month. So until end of February. And after that,

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