My name is Betty and my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer several weeks ago. I am the only one to take care of her because she is a single mother and moved us away from her family when I was only two. We live here in New York in an apartment together and the bills have been stacking up because of all her treatments she must have to stay alive. I never finished high school because I never did well and figured school was not for me. I regret that decision now. I am currently working at any place that will take a nineteen year old girl without a high school diploma. I work at this little diner, almost every hour of every day. I do not make too much money but it is enough to pay rent for now. My life is a mess and is not getting better. Because my mother and I have these hospital bills and must pay rent, as well as get basic necessities, we do not have money for me to go back to school so that I can get a better job and make more money for us. It is almost Christmas and the doctors say my mother is not doing well and may not make it to the New Year, so I will soon be alone in this world with hardly any money or future.
It is now June 1st 2012 and my mother passed away right before Christmas. Before she died she told me who my father was, and I finally got to meet with him. I got my G.E.D and am going to start college in the fall which my father is paying for, as well as the left over hospital bills. Even though my mother is gone now, I feel I am starting a new beginning, and I am excited. I hope to get my education, make more money than I ever got in that little diner I worked at, and make a sizable donation to the breast cancer foundation. Life is looking up.
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