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Moana Hope

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814 total appearances

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

Not possible.

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

Every day she'd come in and go, anything back from the resume?

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

Could I have a job yet?

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

One day she said something to me that she's never said to me in her life and that was,

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

What's wrong with me?

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

Why can't I be like everybody else?

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

And she's never in her whole life said those things, ever.

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

And it always makes me tear up when I talk about it because it broke my absolute heart that she felt like something was wrong with her for the first time.

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

Oh, my God, I'm going to cry.

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

And it was that moment where she was like really questioned that she was different and I think short term after that she tried to commit suicide because she just didn't feel like she belonged here anymore.

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

And then she was running away and we had to keep getting police involved and we found her in bloody Frankston, Shepparton and...

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

It was really scary.

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

And then I just said to my mom, I go, we have to just try and fast track this independent living and give her something because nobody's going to hire her.

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

So we just got NDIS involved, applied for NDIS to get independent living.

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

We eventually got it approved and we just got her therapy.

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

It took me two and a half years to find her a really good independent living and then we got her one and now she lives in one and she's as happy as a pig and she –

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

So much so I'll call and go, let's go to the movies.

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

She's like, nah, I'm hanging out with my friend.

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

She's got a roommate who's her friend, which I won't say her roommate's name, but she's like, I'm with my roommate.

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Moana Hope on a life spent caring for others and re-learning how to love

No.