Gypsy Rose Blanchard
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So my parents met in, um, in a town, I mean, very small in Louisiana.
Originally they became friends and then not too long after, you know, hanging out, my mom got pregnant.
And my father felt like the right thing to do would be to marry my mom.
Even though he was, I mean, honestly, he was just a kid.
He dropped out of high school.
And around that same time, he got another woman pregnant.
So I have a half sister.
And he realized, oh, my gosh, like now I have two daughters to take care of and pay child support on and things like this.
And on my dad's 18th birthday, he realized that he was not in love, that he married my mom for good intent.
Um, but he didn't love her.
He wasn't in love with her like that.
And so he ended the relationship.
It ended in divorce.
Um, and my mom got custody.
Okay.
And I lived with my mom.
You know, in hindsight, I realized that, you know, that must have been so hard on her.
Um, because...
there's not only that element of abandonment, but