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How would YOU like to be TORN from your home/sent someplace you've never known because of a choice your parents made to better your life?

Rip them away from school or jobs and the only life they know in the only country they know? THEIR country?. Ripped away from friends and family. For absolutely nothing you did that was wrong?  Would you take it  blindly and kindly even though a PROMISE that was made to you by someone is broken by a different someone who has no concern for you just to sate the hate of the bloodthirsty political base? Would you kindly accept it? Really? Would YOU?

Posted - September 4, 2017
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  • 44838
    Well...It did happen to me. When I was six my father skipped town with another woman leaving me and five siblings alone as my mother was at her father's funeral 800 miles away. Our family was ripped apart...A sister and I went to FL to live with an aunt. An other sister and brother went to a children's home and another sister was sent to relatives in CT. I was too young to know what was happening but I'm sure it changed my entire life in ways I will never know.
      September 4, 2017 7:47 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Oh Ele I am so sincerely sorry you experienced that. How AWFUL! The coward did it when your mom was 800 miles away attending her father's funeral? No wonder you have no love/like/respect/kind feelings for him. That was a remarkably horrible thing to do. At least you and one sis got to live with an aunt, assuming she treated you lovingly and well. A sister and brother went to a children's home? How have they fared in life? What scumbag would do that to his children? No wonder you react as you do at times. Kids need parents who love them unconditionally and support them lovingly and caringly and totally. You didn't have that. No wonder you were wounded deeply. Condolences won't change a thing for you but please know that I sincerely wish your childhood were different. I can't even almost imagine whom I would be had that happened to me. You're here! You survived. You made a life for yourself. You contributed. Congrats on all of that. The toll it took from you no one can know..not even you. What might have been is out there somewhere and inaccessible. Thank you for your reply m'dear.
      September 4, 2017 7:58 AM MDT
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  • 44838
    Thank you. My brother who was at the children's home died from alcohol and drug abuse when he was 60.
      September 4, 2017 8:23 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    ((hugs)) Oh geez Ele. That is so beyond sad I don't know what to say to you. Condolences on the loss of your brother m'dear.  It took a long while to manifest itself in him but the childhood pain finally got  him. Sad.  :( Beyond sad.
      September 4, 2017 8:43 AM MDT
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  • 24416
    I don't know what to say other than that I read your answer and its thread on 04 September. Your experiences indeed all had to be more-than-difficult. And I'm thinking of you, sending my best to you and you family, Element 99.
      September 4, 2017 8:54 AM MDT
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  • 44838
    Thanks. I got over it, but my sisters didn't.
      September 4, 2017 6:07 PM MDT
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  • "It happened to me twice before I was ten years old,
     but my parents didn't break any laws moving
     from the East Coast to Arizona and then to California."
      September 4, 2017 8:52 AM MDT
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  • 35898
    People move their families all the time.
      September 4, 2017 5:50 PM MDT
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