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Hello, I am starting a go fund me page for my family. And this is our story. Me, my mom and my brother just got out of an abusive relationship/situation. Things have been really rough since, with now just one income with 2 teens and three dogs. We were living in abuse for a while from my mom’s boyfriend. I used to call him my “stepdad”. He seemed pretty awesome, and we used to do all the things like going on hikes, going to basketball games or just spending time outside and having fun until it took a turn. He started to change, he got mean and controlling as more time went by. I’m not really sure why or what happened. He would hide the keys from us. We were unable to leave the house and at times we couldn’t even go get my brother from work, which was 20 minutes away from home. It just got worse and worse. We were planing on leaving, but then covid hit and that put us in a hold on leaving. After covid ended, we were more able to start looking at places. Unfortunately, it’s been hard because the cost of everything has risen so much in the past few years. My mom’s boyfriend started to get more aggressive and started to attack my mom over the littlest things. He did this a lot in more recent years. About 2 months ago, he hurt my mom and left bruises and scratches, when my brother and I weren’t home. He ended up getting taken away by the police. My mom had to get a protection order so that she would not get hurt again. She is so brave and strong! It has been a one — income household since all of this happened. I want to help. I have been unable to because I had lots of health issues and cannot work a part-time job after school. Mom had been working very hard and trying her best to support our family and our needs, but it’s still not affordable. My mom by herself has to try to pay the electric bill that he has left us with that has an unpaid balance, propane, mortgage, cellophane, groceries, and food for our dogs and gas to get to work. We ran out of propane over the weekend and the price really stressed her out. She has a hard time asking for help, but I know we really need it right now. We have to be out of the house by September 1st so that her ex can have it back. A judge was able to grant us that amount of time to get on our feet. I know she’s scared and doesn’t want to let us down. She’s trying so hard and has been so brave. If you guys could help us, it would be greatly appreciated, we could really use it. We could truly use some prayers too!
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Donations 

  • Mike Hebert
    • $200
    • 9 mos
  • Anonymous
    • $50
    • 10 mos
  • Anonymous
    • $50
    • 10 mos
  • Angela Bolduc
    • $100
    • 11 mos
  • Jenny Daniels
    • $200
    • 11 mos
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Organizer and beneficiary

Ayanna Griswold
Organizer
Alfred, ME
Nichole Griswold
Beneficiary

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