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My Family's Property Tax

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Hi, my name is Berkeley and I'm a junior in highschool. Im the oldest in my family; my brother Brailen is 14 and loves Spongebob and pups, and my sister Kailana, who we call Kai, just turned 13 and is learning ASL. Both of my parents, Kat and Derek, work fulltime, my mom is a high school English teacher and my dad works at a rehabilitation center. My family moved from Texas to Florida three years ago and lived with my grandma in Quincy for a little while. We moved into the house we live in now two years ago in October of 2014. My mom worked incredibly hard to put herself through college with no help from her mother, as she has been on her own since she was 16. Every month a large portion of her salary is taken out for student loans, which has really been hurting us economically. This month, in three days, our property tax is due. I was not aware of this until now, and there is no way my family can come up with the 1300 dollars we need to keep our house. Neither of my parents get paid until much after the deadline. When we moved to Florida, my mom made me a promise that I would never have to move or switch high schools again. My siblings have never known a house or a school for very long. The school I currently attend is my seventh, and I would really like for it to be the one I graduate from. In three days, my family is going to be homeless. We are most likely going to move again, back to Texas with my other grandma who just lost my grandpa and is already housing my uncle and his homeless friend. I don't want to be uprooted again. I want my siblings to know more stability than I have. We all have friends here. I want to graduate from Lincoln. Kai wants to continue her ASL classes. Brailen's best friend is here, the only one he's ever truly had. My mom loves her job and the kids she teaches here. My dad is amazing at his. If we are forced to move again, my mom will not be able to find another teaching job until fall, and we will be even worse off than we are now. Please help my family out. Anything helps. Please. I draw some cutesy anime-style drawings, and my best friend is a pastry chef, we can compensate donors with a drawing or a bag of cookies. Anything helps.My dad and I after voting last week
Kailana the cutie
My pup Mr. Noodlé
Me this past July

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Berkeley Barfield
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Tallahassee, FL

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