people who grew up rich but turned out poor what is your story?

daddy owns several stores, also produces motorcycle parts to sell from home, nice childhood, got the best and latest toys. first kid to own a playstation in the whole neighborhood and so on and so on.

then one day mommy met another men, mommy cheats, daddy found out, mommy got beaten, mommy cried,

then daddy got this huge wrench, beat mommy's 'new guy' with it in the head until he's almost dead, cracked his skull almost open, and actually suffers from permanent brain damage and paralyzed when he got out of hospital.

daddy got incarcerated for several years, mommy flees, grandma took care of me and my lil bro, no one to take care of the business and after daddy got out of prison everything is gone and we are dirt poor, suddenly life changed, got our electricity cut because we can't pay and at one point we gotta live on $30 a month that mommy sent from wherever she's at.

but things got better now, daddy actually bounced back few years after that, tough times. and he managed to send me to study at a university, relationship with mommy rekindled.

i'm now an illustrator , lil bro is a coder and i never regretted anything nor am i angry with anyone because as you can see from daddy's story, anger doesn't solve anything.

it is what it is. live must go on.

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