Gerardo Lopez

twindragons:

Hey everyone… 
I know a lot of people are doing contests these days. And one of the biggest ones going around is the AE one. I have a lot of friends doing it and if there was only one winner, then I wouldn’t jump at the opportunity but since there can be ten winners I ask that you help me be one of them.

So lately I’ve been really thinking about my intentions behind the desire to win this contest. So here’s why this contest is important to me. 

My entire life. It’s been just my mom, my dad, my brother and myself. I don’t have any other family out here in California. These three are all I have. Imagine losing one out of these three. Heartbreak isn’t even the word to describe it. Nine years ago, my daddy was a tongue cancer patient. By a God given miracle, he won the battle. Nine years later from that day, he is now fighting for his life against fourth stage lung cancer. Treatable, but incurable. He has chemo every other friday and by the following sunday, he can’t eat no matter how hungry he is, he can’t walk no matter how badly he needs to go to the bathroom, and he barely has the energy to communicate with family. The doctor says he only has a little less than a year to live through it. To be honest, my family is falling apart: I have a dying father, a depressed & stressed mother and an away from home brother. 

Imagine living with your family for eighteen years. And you go off to college. This is going to be the first time EVER living away from home. Six months later, you find out that your father is terminally ill, inevitably going to pass away. And you can’t come home as often because the means of transportation doesn’t exist, the money is hard to attain, and your family’s going through too much to even make the time to pick you up. Imagine living life as a daddy’s little girl and you’re scared of him sleeping because he might not even wake up to see another day. This defines the very experience of my first year in college, and first year away from home. The word “challenge” doesn’t even suffice to my situation.

What’s important to me isn’t having my face publicized for the world to see that I’m a winner on this website. Cherry on top, sure, but not my priority. My priority is the money. Not for any of my selfish materialistic wants, but the want to help out my parents who are both retired and have no source of income except my $8 an hour paycheck. I’m a struggling college student with a broken family, so please take literally the five seconds it takes to help me out? 

It really only takes two clicks. You click the link and you click “vote”. And SPREAD THIS MESSAGE, whether I know them or not! It’s long, but it’s of your worth, time, and effort. My sincere appreciation from the bottom to the top of my heart goes out to every single vote in order to help me, help my family. 

Whatever hard feelings we may have for each other either from now or the past, I ask that you spare them. Because this isn’t about me. This is about my family. And if your family was in the same situation, I’m sure you’d take every opportunity possible to help them, save them.

Thank you for the support in advance♥

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