Ari
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And amidst all that, we're still arguing.
We still don't see eye.
You don't like me and I adore the ground you walk on.
When I, up until 17, 18...
I literally could not speak anything about my mother that was not of love and light and compassion because I felt like if I went against that, something bad was going to happen.
Like, something not good could come from that.
But it's also like, I can't just be silent because she is not silent.
And we'll get into that, but...
So when the downfall of that, then I got a job and it was my first job, but she wasn't making a lot of money either.
So both of our checks were going into rent or going into the house.
I was giving her my checks.
And while we figured all that out, we figured out that my father, he was getting disability and because I was never adopted or I don't really know how the ins and outs of that went at the time.
All I know is I got the back pay and up until I got 18, up until I was 18, I got, you know, some money.
So the back pay was $2,500.
So we get the back pay and I don't even know how much $25,000 is.
I'm like, okay, can we pay rent for this month?
Maybe next month and buy some groceries.
She paid rent for a couple months and then she got her whole body done.
She got her entire body done.