aviva_dawn
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I know that I've already made it perfectly clear about my age and the fact that I am going alone to DW. But I never explained the actual reason WHY I am going to DW. I haven't even told my family why I am going. But since you all are such nice people and have been so helpful to me and to others, I thought that I should tell you all so you can understand me a little better.
I wrote it in third person, because it still is extremely hard to talk about what happened to me and to my family in the past six years.
Her parents had talked for years about taking the entire family on a trip to Disney World. Just when it was about to happen, her mother hurt her back and had to go on disability. No trip that year. Nor the year after. Or the year after that. She left to go on her own to ease the burden of a disabled mother who couldn't work and a Father for whom work was hard to find. She stayed home to help her mother and keep an eye on the running of the house for the first three years. She finsihed 30 High School credits in a month and graduated from Independent Study and then went to Lake Tahoe to work in the hotels there and make her own living. With less children in the home and one daughter providing for herself, the burden on the injured mom and the Father for whom work was hard to find was slightly eased. The girl worked graveyard shifts as a PBX operator in a Lake Tahoe area hotel and attended college classes during the day. She was poor, yet content. She wanted to come and visit her parents, but due to money constraints never had the chance.
The girl never saw her father or her beloved Grandmother again. Her Grandmother died of Cancer in 2004 Then her Father was diagnosed with Renal cancer and died within a year, just this past March. He was 45. She was never able to make it to see either of them before their deaths. In fact, at their request, to spare her the pain, the family was told not to tell her or her brother that either of them were ill. They wouldn't let her see them, so that she remembered them as happy and healthy and not sick and wasted away.
This young woman chose a trip to Disney World and painstakingly saved every cent for it to fulfill her dreams and childhood hopes, to have fun in honor of her Father's memory. She chose the POFQ because her Father's family came from New Orleans, a place that she had been told many stories about but never had the chance to visit. A place that in her beloved Father and Grandmother's stories was a place like no other.
She hopes that with this trip she can allow herself to have fun and pay tribute to her loved ones who are no longer on this Earth, by spending time in a place that they so wanted to see her enjoy.
My Mom has no clue that this is the reason why I am going. I am not sure that she would understand. But I am glad that I was finally able to tell someone(s) about my reasons for paying a visit to the Happiest Place on Earth.
If you got this far in reading: Thanks for listening to me.
Aviva
I wrote it in third person, because it still is extremely hard to talk about what happened to me and to my family in the past six years.
Her parents had talked for years about taking the entire family on a trip to Disney World. Just when it was about to happen, her mother hurt her back and had to go on disability. No trip that year. Nor the year after. Or the year after that. She left to go on her own to ease the burden of a disabled mother who couldn't work and a Father for whom work was hard to find. She stayed home to help her mother and keep an eye on the running of the house for the first three years. She finsihed 30 High School credits in a month and graduated from Independent Study and then went to Lake Tahoe to work in the hotels there and make her own living. With less children in the home and one daughter providing for herself, the burden on the injured mom and the Father for whom work was hard to find was slightly eased. The girl worked graveyard shifts as a PBX operator in a Lake Tahoe area hotel and attended college classes during the day. She was poor, yet content. She wanted to come and visit her parents, but due to money constraints never had the chance.
The girl never saw her father or her beloved Grandmother again. Her Grandmother died of Cancer in 2004 Then her Father was diagnosed with Renal cancer and died within a year, just this past March. He was 45. She was never able to make it to see either of them before their deaths. In fact, at their request, to spare her the pain, the family was told not to tell her or her brother that either of them were ill. They wouldn't let her see them, so that she remembered them as happy and healthy and not sick and wasted away.
This young woman chose a trip to Disney World and painstakingly saved every cent for it to fulfill her dreams and childhood hopes, to have fun in honor of her Father's memory. She chose the POFQ because her Father's family came from New Orleans, a place that she had been told many stories about but never had the chance to visit. A place that in her beloved Father and Grandmother's stories was a place like no other.
She hopes that with this trip she can allow herself to have fun and pay tribute to her loved ones who are no longer on this Earth, by spending time in a place that they so wanted to see her enjoy.
My Mom has no clue that this is the reason why I am going. I am not sure that she would understand. But I am glad that I was finally able to tell someone(s) about my reasons for paying a visit to the Happiest Place on Earth.
If you got this far in reading: Thanks for listening to me.
Aviva
