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first story comes from a deleted user is titled today i effed up by letting my family back into my life

unaware i had won the lottery years prior so backstory i 36 male am the youngest of five children. Boy, girl, boy, girl, boy.

And we grew up in absolute poverty. Mum loved having kids, but she didn't work and dad didn't

make enough to support everyone. Poor enough that I remember as an 11 or 12 year old receiving a single plastic

slinky and being absolutely thrilled, I got anything. Growing up with that kind of family was rough.

Parents got divorced and dad lived locally but didn't really do much, but didn't really do much

to try to be a dad. Just support financially when legally necessary

and he let it slip once to me that he never wanted any kids. He just loved my mom and

she wanted kids so he went along with it. Obviously with this kind of dynamic and the absolute

lack of resources home life wasn't great prior to the

divorce. I was helping fix drywall at like five years old because we could only afford to live

in a crummy rundown houses. I remember stripping paint with a steamer and putty knife

at about six or seven and only learned recently the house had lead paint. Oldest siblings did

even more housework and probably inhaled a bunch of lead dust and toxic substances. Coupled that

with emotional abuse of our parents and they didn't grow up to be good people. My oldest brother

had anger issues and got kicked out of college for fighting people. He also got arrested a few times for stuff involving theft or violence.

Oldest sister struggled with substance abuse, got arrested a few times, ended up involuntarily

committed for 72 hours once.

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