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Addiction Secret: My Parents' Gambling Addiction Is Ruining My Life
My family's gambling addiction makes life unbearable for us. It sent my dad to jail, gave my mom a side Job, prostitution, and now we are homeless.
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My name is Katie, and here is my story.
My family's gambling addiction makes life unbearable for us. It sent my dad to jail, gave my mom a side job, prostitution, and now we are homeless.
Gambling addiction ruined my childhood, and now I am about to be homeless.
It seems I will have to drop out of college to support myself. My parents sat me down last night and told me our home is in foreclosure, and they have declared bankruptcy for the sixth time since I was born. I'm home for the summer and doing my first-year internship.
I'm nineteen, live in New Haven, CT, and this is how I must start my adult life. I have nothing right now to call a passed-on family asset. That is the onset of generational…
