# Help Me Stay With My Chosen Family - A Fight for Love and Hope 
 
I'm struggling to find the right words, but my heart won't let me stay silent. 
 
My name is Haxzian, and in October 2024, I took the biggest leap of my life—I moved to Texas to be with my chosen family, the people who have become my entire world. These incredible souls welcomed me with open arms and showed me what unconditional love truly means. While I've always been blessed with love from my birth family, this bond I've found here is something so precious, so life-changing, that I can't bear the thought of losing it. 
 
{They're in the photo! My family whom I wouldn't trade for the world! My adoptive mother with the brightest smile and my homeboy in the back!!}
 
I came to Texas carrying dreams of transformation—of finally getting my life back on track and building the future I've always yearned for. For months, everything felt possible. I was healing, growing, and for the first time in so long, I felt genuinely hopeful about tomorrow. 
 
Then December 2024 hit like a crushing wave. Just one week before Christmas, I lost my job. Since that devastating day, I've been fighting an uphill battle that grows steeper with each passing month. 
 
I've never been comfortable asking for help—it goes against every fiber of my being. But watching my savings disappear while relying on both my chosen and birth families has been both humbling and heartbreaking. I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for their support, but I can see we're reaching the end of what's possible. 
 
The thought of having to leave Texas, of being separated from my chosen family, fills me with absolute terror. I would literally rather live on the streets near the people who love me than return to where I came from. I know those words sound harsh, but they come from the deepest place of truth in my soul.Every single day is a battle. I wake up fighting demons in my mind, wrestling with darkness that tries to pull me under. But you know what keeps me going? It's them. My chosen family gives me strength when I have none left. They make me want to get up and fight when everything in me wants to surrender. They are my anchor, my hope, my reason to keep believing that better days are coming. 
 
I'm reaching out to anyone with a compassionate heart. I don't need much—just enough to cover June's rent and utilities, with a little left over for groceries. That's it. I know in my bones that the right job is coming; I just need a little more time to find it. I need time to truly embrace Texas, to live here long enough to find the happiness I've been searching for my entire life. 
 
I've only been here since October 2023—barely eight months to build a new life. It's not nearly enough time to give up on this dream, on this love, on this chance at real happiness. 
 
So I'm doing the hardest thing I've ever done: I'm asking for help.
 
Every dollar, every share, every prayer means the world to me. You're not just helping me pay bills—you're helping me stay with my family, you're giving me the gift of time, and you're believing in my future when I'm struggling to believe in it myself. While I take this step to do the one thing that scares me most. Like I mentioned before, Asking for help 
 
Please, help me stay where love lives. Help me keep fighting for the life I know is possible. 
 
With endless gratitude and hope, 

Haxzian 
 
Any amount helps. Sharing this story helps even more. Thank you for reading, for caring, and for being part of my journey.

Anonymous

Jake Sales

Shamirah Jack

Raymond Mastroine

Tiana Waines

Maryelyse Peterson

# Help Me Stay With My Chosen Family

platform

Platform is iOS

Android

Adyen Google Pay Development Audience

$opt_dummy_attribute

English only

Deprecate Stripe Legacy

dyn_template_ids

Adyen V6 Bene Transfer & MyMoney Campaign Organizers - test01

Bene transfer V6 and AdyenV6MyMoney Campaign Organizers - production

OneTrust next-app audience

fundCountryCode

NextDoor Share Option Users

Fundraisers with Reactions feature capability

fundCurrencyCode

US + Non-charity COs Only

locale

fund country is US and user language is English

personId

comms-internal-person-ids

Enhanced Story Experience Users

Suggested Goal Experience Users

user language is English and fund country: US, AU, DK, FI, IE, NO, SE, CA, GB; 

Poster share - new funds eligible (newest 9/18)

Streaming widgets beta user

paymentProcessor

3DS payment method

user language is English and fundCountry: US, AU, DK, FI, IE, NO, SE, CA, GB; 

currencyCode

Money Box Donation List Prompt Experiment Audience

GoFundMe Employees

ipAddress

Mark Rieth IP Address

Version 9.2.0 and above

Fund is in English speaking country

desktop

Android v12.11.0 and above

Platform is Android

paymentMethodType

checkoutType

Payment method type group to be vaulted on success

admin pr kit prod

EUR Donation Upsell

Share Text generation Skip Fundraiser

(prod) new funds eligible for amp12 (UGC gallery)

fintrac_cad_idv_form_v2 audience

paymentProcessorAccountId

fallback mode accounts

proCampaignId

p2p legacy startfundraising page

AMP24 New Funds Only PROD (DO NOT MODIFY)

countryCode

charityId

UKCharities

Federated Search Internal Testing

route.pathname community

US Donation Upsell audience 

Auto Thanks Feature Audience

Supporter Comments Eligible Funds

International Only

fundId

braze fundraiser group 

Payment Identity Transfers ATO Risk Check (Targeted) - Production

Fundraiser Saved Payment Method Rate Limit Bypass (Production)

leaderboard-partner-id-audience-givepanel

Version 9.2.1 and above

AUD Donation Upsell audience

fundraiserCountryCode is US/EN

Active Fundraiser - Smart Default Cadence

DAF Internal

Vault on success card payment method

Platform is iOS v11.0.0 and above

Desktop users

Person ids

United States (US) users

allow yuno fundraisers for test

Mexico country code

Posters INTL

NPO Profile Opted-In

iOS at or above 12.4.0

non-US recurring donors

Canada Campaign Owner Group

Fundraiser Without Meta Link

Scheduler payment tester gorup

charityCommunityId

Charities allow to be claimed unclaimed (PRD)

Canada (CA) users

UC Tipping v20250115 International

pymk_production_xplr_fe_team

Android at or above 12.2.0

Profile photo entry point audience

smart goals (fundraiser/manage) on test01

Activity Tracking v1 Beta Testing

start gfm intl allowed locales

Platform is iOS v11.2.0 and above

NPO upsell education category

unclaimed charities

prod_ach_audience

AI Chatbot Audience

amp13 only new funds (prod) (anyword auto)

UC Flow Enabled (Prod)

Payment Identity Beneficiary Verification - Production

shared notification bell audience

Custom users

ach frontend audience

Android v11.0.0 and above

Users Receiving Payments Paused Notifications

smart goals test01

Manage Coach - US English Organizers Only + new funds only

Team EGG - IP Address list

NPO recommendations prod

Fundraiser Without Instagram Deep Link

Native 11.4.0 and above

UC Tipping v20250107

Users Receiving Braze KYC Validation Failed

Native 11.3.0 and above

ai_title_page

anyword

openai

control

manual_entry

userEmail

template_id

userId

fundUrl

isCharityCo

email

appVersion

shouldBucketIntoExperiment

partnerId

donationCadence

isActiveFundraiser

isPartner

isMobile

npoProfileOptIn

fundIsLinkedWithMeta

hasSessionDonation

categoryGroup

isCampaignOwner

fundHasInstagramDeepLink

Native 11.4.0 and higher

New funds eligible - Video Sharing (PROD)

GB Donation Upsell audience 

Auto Thanks V3 Rollout Audience

Thank you V3 testing whitelist

isRecurringFriendly

Is Recurring Friendly

Excluded funds - Video Sharing

NPO upsell animals category

NPO upsell disaster relief category

Logged In Users

CH Donation Upsell audience

Android v10.6.0 and above

NPO upsell essential needs category

NPO upsell medical category

userCurrencyCode

Localized Currency

NPO upsell cancer category

v11.5.0 and above

testAudience

pathname

Survicate

appVersion is at or above 12.8.0

Non-charity fund

isChallengeFundraiser

challenge-fundraisers

Payment Identity Launch Verification - Production

New funds eligible - Posters v2

CAD Donation Upsell Audience

Braze Email Tester

NPO Profile Opted-Out

iOS App Version

hasKnownDonors

PYMK has donors

iOS v12.3.0 and above

# Help Me Stay With My Chosen Family

Still $1,746 to go. Help us build momentum.