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My name is Rebecca. I'm a drop out university student that spend my days lazing about at my parents' place, visiting my siblings and sleeping. But you see, this isn't about me. It's about my sister. Her name is Angelica, and she's my twin. We've always been a bit competitive, fought a lot while growing up and I'll never forget when she stained the carpet in our shared room with barf when we were kids.
But I love her. She was my pillar during most of my school time and I always had someone to play with thanks to her. During high school, however, the roles were reversed. Sadly, I didn't make as good a pillar as she did, and while I wish I was enough, the world doesn't work that way.
She moved to an apartment back in late October last year, wanting her independence and I think partly to prove that she could do it, regardless of her struggles in daily life. She was diagnosed with Aspergers years ago, and because of her difficulties, she doesn't often have the heart to put her foot and down and say enough is enough.
We have a system here, a system supposed to help people, but instead she's suddenly told this year that unless she gets a doctor to give her sick leave, she won't get any kind of grant at all. She was never given much, but it covered her rent and food and she was able to live off of it.
Now she has enough money to last through February, if she's lucky, and after that she has no idea what to do. The psychologist she saw didn't take her seriously and now she's stuck trying to figure out what to do and stressing herself out because she doesn't have a lot of time to solve it in.
I want to help.
I want to help her.
But I'm a drop out student living with our parents. No matter how badly I want to help her, I lack the money to do so. This is why I want to ask for your help.
This fundraiser is to help her pay her rent, for hopefully two more months, so that she can sit down, take a breath and be given some time to work things out, instead of being evicted because she wasn't taken seriously.
The money that this will hopefully raise, will be going straight towards paying my sister's apartment rent, internet bill, insurance and electricity bill. What's left will be given straight to my sister for food and other necessities, and if the goal is reached, should help her immensely.
Every little bit helps. Whether it's a dollar or twenty, a hundred or a thousand, it'll still mean the world to me, and hopefully to my sister as well (though she might be too shy to admit it, haha). Even if you can't donate, shares are appreciated just as much, because they increase the chances of the goal being reached.
Please, donate and/or share if you can, and in return I'll shower you with virtual hugs and kisses.
I've seen people come together to do truly amazing things for others, saving lives and helping the poor and so many other things. I believe that while this might not seem like a lot, it can put a real smile onto my sister's face again, and that means something.
To me, to our family, to our friends and to her.
Thank you for your help, and know that whoever you are out there, I'm truly grateful.
~Rebecca
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