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Help me see my fiancee and child.

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Thank you all for visiting, having to write for this kind of help hurts my pride and is very heart wrenching. Yet I have swallowed my pride and am asking for any help that you can offer.
I met my fiancée while I was active duty military online while I was overseas to have locals show me around whenever I would visit a new country. I met my soon to be fiancée and mother of my child Giscelle in August of 2012. We talked for months and what seemed to be so much longer, before I knew it I fell in love with this woman. she never asked for anything from me other than attention, she always praised me and made me feel special. we began dating in the middle of September, during that time we spent whole days messaging each other and even when i was asleep or at work I'd have dozens of messages from her and it filled me with joy. I knew she was someone special. I was able to schedule a trip to the Philippines in February of 2013 being released from active duty in December of 2012. We spent a whole month together. There was never a dull moment I felt love. We had talks about starting a family together and what do you know, in the final few weeks I was there she started having morning sickness. We found out that she was pregnant. We were both very happy and in love. Before I left I then proposed to my girlfriend Giscelle and she said yes! I was so happy.

When I left I was overcome with sadness, I cried on the plane until I fell asleep. Over the next few months we talked and talked as usual about names and joked with each other until finally I learned I was having a girl. We settled on the name Alexandria Phoenix. Her birth was to be in late October early November. I scheduled my plane ticket immediately and when I had arrived I could tell just how pregnant my fiancée had become. We spent 2 weeks together before she gave birth on November 8th to our little girl. I spent one week with her that was the happiest and craziest times I've ever had in my life but it was all enjoyable. Leaving was even harder this time around. Yet I was determined to do what I can to get them here.

When I arrived back home it was back to work. I had a good job nothing great but it was enough to support a family and had lots of rising opportunities. We planned to do the K-1 Visa and come visit to get my daughter her US citizenship when I had gotten my taxes back, yet in march of 2014 I lost my job. So it threw us for a loop and we were overcome with sadness. My pride as a father and husband kept me going knowing that even if I couldn’t be there I still had money saved up to be able to take care of my daughter. Over the next few months I was unemployed. When all seemed lost I found a temporary job with possibilities of becoming a full employee in June of 2014. It lasted two months before the contract ended and was not renewed. I felt betrayed but it was to be expected with a temporary job, there are no guarantees in life. I was unemployed yet again but it did not take long as I have just got a job this week. It is not a great paying job and the work is very demanding and I do not get to spend much time talking or seeing my daughter as I would like.

I struggle everyday with hope of one day seeing my family again, that is the only thing keeping me going. I feel like I’m missing out on my daughter’s life, and my fiancée who is always supportive is becoming worried that I may never get to see them again. I won't give up but not being able to hold my daughter is tearing me apart. The pictures and videos I see of her are bittersweet. I cry for hours knowing how big she’s gotten and I haven’t been there for one moment in her young life. I fear that I will not be able to see my daughter for a long time and she will not know her father. I would love to be able to hold me daughter again on her birthday or sometime this year.

Thank you all for taking the time out of your day to read this. I am asking for money to visit my fiancée and my daughter to get her citizenship and start the Visa process to get my family here. If this Story has touched you, and you find it in your heart to help me, all I can say is thank you so much and it means a great deal to me.

 

 

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Stevie Franchise
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Vine Grove, KY

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