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Changing4Best
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My best friend Tina has high blood pressure, and she is very frail in general too, though she's in another way a very tough person in her way of thinking. She has PTSD and was attacked and her baby killed 12 years ago. She repressed it until very recently. Now she goes to Therapy Groups and a free therapist at a state run center in her town.
Her 4 children were taken from her because she's so frail that she could not put enough weight on them as infants. The state took them from her one by one as they were born, even though she did 17 parenting classes!!! She is not a drug addict or anything, so there should not have been an excuse; they should have helped her with formula and such, but they chose not to. SO! She got some close friends to take them, who had no kids of their own but wanted some desparately. They live in a good family, in a good home now.
NOW! Her daughter, one of them, has written her a letter, even though it is a closed adoption. And Tina asked me for a stamp so she could write back. I gave her the stamp, but I told her I could not continue to give her stamps as I live on Di$ability and am poor myself. I suggested she ask her boyfriend or cut back on smoking cigarettes and use that money. I pray she is not insulted by this, but I do not want her to get the idea that I can just keep giving her hand-outs.
Please pray for both of us, as we are best friends. And I don't want this to come between us. I have given her money before, but I just feel that it is not right to expect it of me, not even stamps.
Her 4 children were taken from her because she's so frail that she could not put enough weight on them as infants. The state took them from her one by one as they were born, even though she did 17 parenting classes!!! She is not a drug addict or anything, so there should not have been an excuse; they should have helped her with formula and such, but they chose not to. SO! She got some close friends to take them, who had no kids of their own but wanted some desparately. They live in a good family, in a good home now.
NOW! Her daughter, one of them, has written her a letter, even though it is a closed adoption. And Tina asked me for a stamp so she could write back. I gave her the stamp, but I told her I could not continue to give her stamps as I live on Di$ability and am poor myself. I suggested she ask her boyfriend or cut back on smoking cigarettes and use that money. I pray she is not insulted by this, but I do not want her to get the idea that I can just keep giving her hand-outs.
Please pray for both of us, as we are best friends. And I don't want this to come between us. I have given her money before, but I just feel that it is not right to expect it of me, not even stamps.