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"I'm listening..."

"I'm skipping my early childhood years and just getting to the main points."

"Alright."

"I graduated high school at sixteen and at seventeen going on eighteen, my mum decided my brother and I were such a liability to her and her stud since she was separated from my dad. She OD'd one day and her stud decided that was it. He threw us out with her support."

"We moved to dad's and it wasn't much better, he was married and they had kids of their own. No rooms or bed for us, we have to convert a store room to a slightly habitable living space but there was a limit to which my brother and I could manage sleeping on thin, ratty blankets and cold floors."

"No sooner had I turned eighteen and was old enough to be my brother's guardian so we moved out and stayed in a homeless shelter sometime while I worked two dumb, dead end jobs so we could feed and take care of the necessities the money c