She Sacrificed Everything So Her Brother Could Have A Better Life, And He Just Thanked Her In The Sweetest Way
When you grow up without a safety net, you learn to become one. She didn’t plan on having to step up and be a parent when she was not even an adult herself, but without a stable home life, she felt like she had to make her baby brother her responsibility.
This woman and her little brother had it rough growing up. Their mom was virtually a ghost, and their dad walked away from them all when she was nine.
Five years later, she was the one getting her brother up for school in the mornings. She was the one who fed him dinner in the evenings.
She hid all of the horrible details of their lives from her little brother so he could enjoy his childhood and simply be a child.
“I missed out on so much, but I never regretted it. I loved him that much. Now he’s 18. He just got into college. He hugged me last week and said, ‘You’re the reason I made it,'” she explained.
“I cried in the shower that night because no one really knows what it took. All the times I went hungry so he could eat. All the days I lied to teachers about why his homework wasn’t done. All the nights I stayed up wondering if we’d even make it another month.”
“Sometimes I feel invisible. I see people with normal lives, parents who show up, and I wonder what that’s like. But I also feel proud. I broke the cycle. I gave him a shot at something better.”
Not once did anyone see or acknowledge her hard work and the fact that she raised her brother as if he were her own child.
But knowing that her brother realizes how much she did for him means the world to her.
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