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We are in need of a new ( USED) van

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We are the Burton's. My name is Amy, and Mom. I am the Mom to four wonderful, caring kids.  We are in need of a car, acutully a mini van.
Many times over the last 2+ years  I have though about posting on this site.
When our power was shut off due to non payment. I sold my wedding rings to get the power turned back on. They were just sitting in a drawer anyway. My ex had walked out 5 months earlier. I thought about posting when my student loans went into default, I had to leave school beacuse of my attendance.  I had to stay home from school if one of my children were home sick. With four children it did happen often enough.
I thought about posting again the second time our power was shut off. I sold more jewlery and a few other items.
I started to post on here when our house went into forclouser, but still decided not to.  Im not sure why I didn't, I think the cost to save it was too great. My children were sad and cried, especially when we couldn't take our cat. Don't worry we found a wonderful home for him. AND  we still had eachother.  I moved us into an affordable apartment.
However, our means of tranportation is broke.
We are in great need of a new Mini Van.
Because of my forcloser the only credit I have is negative.  Which doesn't help when needing  to buy a new/used van.
I've moved my childfren out of their school district. I will transfer them next school year to the school distric we are in. Partly the reason I havent yet is that they have been through so many ups and downs over the last few years I'm not ready to rip them away from their friends just yet. Also one of my children is in a special learning class and she is triving this her in her special Ed class.
So the last few weeks, we have borrowed friends cars, taken the city bus ( a 2 hr ride one way) I have even paid $40 for a cab.  They have not been late once! They have been great  sports about the whole situation.
My van needs to much work to fix. 
Three weeks ago the brake went out while ai was driving. I had  just droped the children off at school and way on my way to work. The brakes just failed, it was very scary. As of now the van is just parked out front. Big praise to AAA for  coming  and towing me. 
So as of this moment,  I have no brakes, all four rotors need to be replace,  the master cylinderi,  all four tires are bald, the front windshield is cracked, the front bumper is missing, 2 of the brake lights are out and the sliding doors on both side are screwed shut beacuse the cables snapped and they wouldn't open or close. I'm sure I am forgetting a few things.

We need a new van.
Thank you  for taking the time to read my post.
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    Amy J Christiansen-Burton
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    Dundalk, MD

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