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return_to_nolaHey. 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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Date: 2019-04-23 09:06 am (UTC)Can I ask why you’re not allowed to see each other?
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Date: 2019-04-23 09:20 am (UTC)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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Date: 2019-04-23 01:15 pm (UTC)Oh my god. Dani, I’m so sorry that you have been through so much pain. Is your brother okay?
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Date: 2019-04-23 09:49 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2019-04-23 11:23 pm (UTC)They sent him to a conversion therapy camp??
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Date: 2019-04-23 11:26 pm (UTC)They run one.
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Date: 2019-04-23 11:33 pm (UTC)Oh my god, Dani. I'm so sorry.
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Date: 2019-04-23 11:43 pm (UTC)So that's probably why I study sociology.
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Date: 2019-04-23 11:47 pm (UTC)You've had to suffer through so much.
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Date: 2019-04-24 01:36 am (UTC)I'm hoping it turns out to be worth it somehow.
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Date: 2019-04-24 01:39 am (UTC)Your life will be worthwhile no matter what. I wish there was something I could do to help your brother.
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Date: 2019-04-24 01:42 am (UTC)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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Date: 2019-04-24 01:47 am (UTC)How long until he turns 18? What will happen when you do get him out of there?
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Date: 2019-04-24 02:16 am (UTC)Less than a year. I'm trying to get custody, so he'd come live with me.
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Date: 2019-04-24 02:20 am (UTC)I hope you can get it.
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Date: 2019-04-24 03:15 am (UTC)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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Date: 2019-04-24 03:24 am (UTC)Yes! And that will help him a lot.