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#LittleMe here again, it'll be a long night for me...

Dear friends in the distance, thank you so much for your kind comments, advices and prayers. So it hasn't been a good week for me, it has been raining all week and the governor just announced he might be closing down Puerto Vallarta for another 14 days if cases of #covid continue to rise. I am freaking out because we haven't made enough for rent and we still owe last months. I know I'm only 15, but are the headaches normal when you have to pay for rent? Do grown people get them every month? I'm thinking of talking to my grandma and maybe she can stay with someone from church and I'll continue to work and pay for her meals and I can ask my only friend if his parents would mind letting me stay in their garage or something. I feel like a failure, all I've done has been just to delay this. I can't face my grandma, look her in the eyes and tell her this, will she cry? Will she be disappointed? Will she blame me for not doing enough? Will she be upset with me? I cannot ask her to go into a home because I need her as my legal guardian and I cannot quit school now. I need to hold on to this part of my life to keep me sane, for my sake. I feel like that movie Dear Simon, where I write to an unknown person behind their screen and just vent, hoping for a little advice on what to do with my life, our lives.

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#LittleMe here again and I am totally freaking out

Dear friends in the distance, thank you so much for your kind comments, advices and prayers. So it hasn't been a good week for me, it has been raining all week and the governor just announced he might be closing down Puerto Vallarta for another 14 days if cases of #covid continue to rise. I am freaking out because we haven't made enough for rent and we still owe last months. I know I'm only 15, but are the headaches normal when you have to pay for rent? Do grown people get them every month? I'm thinking of talking to my grandma and maybe she can stay with someone from church and I'll continue to work and pay for her meals and I can ask my only friend if his parents would mind letting me stay in their garage or something. I feel like a failure, all I've done has been just to delay this. I can't face my grandma, look her in the eyes and tell her this, will she cry? Will she be disappointed? Will she blame me for not doing enough? Will she be upset with me? I cannot ask her to go into a home because I need her as my legal guardian and I cannot quit school now. I need to hold on to this part of my life to keep me sane, for my sake. I feel like that movie Dear Simon, where I write to an unknown person behind their screen and just vent, hoping for a little advice on what to do with my life, our lives.

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#LittleMe here #FreakingOut

Dear friends in the distance, thank you so much for your kind comments, advices and prayers. So it hasn't been a good week for me, it has been raining all week and the governor just announced he might be closing down Puerto Vallarta for another 14 days if cases of #COVID continue to rise. I am freaking out because we haven't made enough for rent and we still owe last months. I know I'm only 15, but are the headaches normal when you have to pay for rent? Do grown people get them every month? I'm thinking of talking to my grandma and maybe she can stay with someone from church and I'll continue to work and pay for her meals and I can ask my only friend if his parents would mind letting me stay in their garage or something. I feel like a failure, all I've done has been just to delay this. I can't face my grandma, look her in the eyes and tell her this, will she cry? Will she be disappointed? Will she blame me for not doing enough? Will she be upset with me? I cannot ask her to go into a home because I need her as my legal guardian and I cannot quit school now. I need to hold on to this part of my life to keep me sane, for my sake. I feel like that movie Dear Simon, where I write to an unknown person behind their screen and just vent, hoping for a little advice on what to do with my life, our lives.

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Being a kid during the covid lockdown is not easy

#LittleMe here again...
Today, like always, I went door to door to sell tamales, which my grandma makes, we live alone btw and since she lost her job it's been my responsibility to come up with rent money and food. Last week some kids from school saw me selling tamales and started making fun of me, these are the same kids that make fun of my shoes in front of girls.
Yesterday I had a grown man that offered me money for sex 😱 this was just too much for me. People call me "tamalero* in a way to make me feel less about myself, I'm 15 years old, I already have low self-esteem 🙄 Why do grown ups see kids born in poverty as not in their level? I go to school! I skipped a grade! I learned English! I work! I pay rent! I buy groceries! I do house chores! I cook! I take care of grandma when she's sick! I don't hate! I have dreams! I cry! I get depressed! I get anxiety attacks! I feel! I work harder than most people I know but I get kid wages and not a regular men wages, so I must work not just in the mornings, but I look for day jobs in the afternoons for tips and I sell old stuff at flea markets! All this and sometimes I feel useless if I didn't make enough for rent, I feel like this is too much! I need a break, it is not easy being a kid during the covid lockdown.

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Why are people so cruel to kids?

#LittleMe here again...
Today, like always, I went door to door to sell tamales, which my grandma makes, we live alone btw and since she lost her job it's been my responsibility to come up with rent money and food. Last week some kids from school saw me selling tamales and started making fun of me, these are the same kids that make fun of my shoes in front of girls.
Yesterday I had a grown man that offered me money for sex 😱 this was just too much for me. People call me "tamalero* in a way to make me feel less about myself, I'm 15 years old, I already have low self-esteem 🙄 Why do grown ups see kids born in poverty as not in their level? I go to school! I skipped a grade! I learned English! I work! I pay rent! I buy groceries! I do house chores! I cook! I take care of grandma when she's sick! I don't hate! I have dreams! I cry! I get depressed! I get anxiety attacks! I feel! I work harder than most people I know but I get kid wages and not a regular men wages, so I must work not just in the mornings, but I look for day jobs in the afternoons for tips and I sell old stuff at flea markets! All this and sometimes I feel useless if I didn't make enough for rent, I feel like this is too much! I need a break, it is not easy being a kid during the covid lockdown.

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Are there more kids out whose lives changed bc of Covid?

#LittleMe
Are we really stronger just because we're young?

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Jere a little about #LittleMe

Is there someone my age out there that understands how this feels?

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