egberts:

This is my sister, Cheyenne. She’s 15. I haven’t seen her since she was 7. I haven’t talked to her since she was 7. Until today. We talked on facebook for the first time in almost 9 years. She had to do it in secret, here’s why: for the last 9 years my grandmother and aunts have kept us apart. It’s a much larger scale than just me and Cheyenne, though. My sister Cierra and I haven’t seen our sisters Cheyenne, Monica, and Elena since 2005. We’ve been intentionally kept apart and punished for things we can’t control and had no part in, we were told to our faces we were forbidden from seeing our sisters. Cheyenne messaged me on facebook because she’s old enough now to understand and know it’s wrong. They’re not letting her see Monica and Elena now. Our grandmother is one by one separating all of my sisters. Cheyenne, Monica, and Elena don’t even know they have two little brothers. Timothi is seven and my baby brother Zackari is 8 months old, they’ve never met their sisters and up until two days ago the only pictures we had to show them were years old. That’s where this comes in, we’re pretty poor, living from paycheck to paycheck with virtually no money to hop in the car and take a trip whenever we please, gas prices and hotel fees would be outrageous - but now there is hope. Cheyenne doesn’t live with my grandma anymore (hence her being forbidden from seeing my other sisters as well), she lives with my much more lenient aunt (who we are slowly working our way up to telling about us talking, and hopefully she won’t go off) and we have a chance to see her but no money to get there. I know this cause might not seem worthy to some of you, it might seem a bit stupid or pointless, but to me and my family it means more than the world. Cheyenne wants to see us, she reached out to us after years of us being prohibited from reaching out to her. We want to raise money so my mother, my step-father, my sister, my niece, my little brother Timothi, my step brother Charlie, my little brother Zackari, and myself can go to Arkansas and see Cheyenne again. (And maybe, if we’re lucky, Monica and Elena too.)

I’ve set up a gofundme with a goal of 2500 dollars to cover the cost of gas, hotels (or probably motels), and food for the trip. you don’t have to donate, you don’t even have to care or signal boost this, but i had to post it, i had to give it a shot because, like i said, we’re desperate.

somebody told me gofundme is pretty picky about donation amounts and suggested i also make a paypal donation page/button so here is that.