They say "everyone's fighting a battle you don't know about." What's yours?

I'm just a step above being homeless. When my parents divorced, the house was foreclosed on. My grandfather is a saint, he put up the money for a new house for me and my mother kind of as an early inheritance. The house and everything is in my mothers name. She owns it. Now I am eternally grateful to my grandfather for saving us, but I won't lie, this house isn't in great condition. There's a lot of things that need to be fixed. We can't afford any of it and my mother wouldn't dare ask my grandfather for help because of everything he has already done for us, even though she knows he would. But it is a roof over my head. My mother is also a saint. She has worked so hard to pay the bills over the years, but it's hard to stay on track when it's just one person working, trying to keep everything in order. The sewer company had our water shut off a year ago. They want a lot of money from us that we can't pay. So we have to make due. We bought gym memberships so we can take showers, but we live in a very rural area and the closest gym is 20 miles away, so we can't get to it every day. Launder mat for the laundry and collected rain water to flush the toilets. Thank god it's been a really rainy this last year. But things are looking up for us. We both just had a few business opportunities open up and we feel like they can get us out of poverty. Even with all the bills overdue, she still thinks the most important priority is gas money for me to get to school (it's 50 miles away) because she believes in me. So even though it's been a rough life for both of us, I'm grateful for it because I know we will both come out of this stronger. I can see the light at the end of this long and dark tunnel.

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