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return_to_nola2019-04-23 03:13 am
nola_wanda) wrote in return_to_nola2019-04-23 03:13 am
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Hey. It's Dani.
Right now I'm working--I nanny for this really cute toddler overnight a few times a week because his mom works a 6-to-6, so mostly it's just being here while he sleeps--but I'd rather be wherever you are.
I hope that's not a crazy thing to say.
Right now I'm working--I nanny for this really cute toddler overnight a few times a week because his mom works a 6-to-6, so mostly it's just being here while he sleeps--but I'd rather be wherever you are.
I hope that's not a crazy thing to say.
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Maybe you're just impossible to be an awkward weirdo around. I didn't get to see him, he wasn't there. I didn't expect him to be, I was just there in case. Our parents don't let me see him, so that's the only place we know that's easy for us to meet up.
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Can I ask why you’re not allowed to see each other?
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Our parents are super controlling, super conservative evangelical Christians. I left when I turned 18. I could've stayed, if I agreed to go to the college they wanted me to go to and keep going to their church and keep following all their rules, but I don't believe any of the things that they do. So I left. And they punished me by cutting me off from their money and from my brother.
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Oh my god. Dani, I’m so sorry that you have been through so much pain. Is your brother okay?
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He's...doing the best he can. They sent him to their camp for like a month and I've seen him since and he seemed okay, okay as he can be, but it's bad. I've been talking to a social worker, trying to figure out how I can get custody, but conversion therapy isn't illegal in Louisiana and isn't automatically considered child abuse. Not yet, anyway.
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They sent him to a conversion therapy camp??
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They run one.
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Oh my god, Dani. I'm so sorry.
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So that's probably why I study sociology.
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You've had to suffer through so much.
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I'm hoping it turns out to be worth it somehow.
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Your life will be worthwhile no matter what. I wish there was something I could do to help your brother.
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Me too. At this point I think he's going to turn 18 before I manage to get him out of there. Waiting is the worst.
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How long until he turns 18? What will happen when you do get him out of there?
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Less than a year. I'm trying to get custody, so he'd come live with me.
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I hope you can get it.
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And if not, he can come live with me as soon as he turns 18 and they can't stop him.
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Yes! And that will help him a lot.