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Please Read This?

 i know that asking for money for a motorbike is a strange request but allow me to explain..

my dad’s whole life, he’s wanted to keep two things: his suzuki bandit gsf 650 and his gibson les paul classic guitar with sunburst effect.

TWICE, due to bankruptcy, he’s had to sell his guitar, and this time he just about managed to claw enough together to keep his beloved bike. 

Til my brother rode it, uninsured, and wrapped it around a metal pole at the side of the road.

The reason my dad is bankrupt is because of my mother - she’s very, very ill and has multiple sclerosis, which has progressed to dementia like symptoms. Now, the government refuses to acknowledge that she’s not fit to manage herself or her finances, and left her in charge of her own bills - bills which she tried to pay multiple times having forgotten she’d already done it. As a result, money got tied up right left and centre with my dad begging for it back, but not in time to make the payments on the loans he’d been forced to take out or the mortgage.. so what followed? bankruptcy, and selling his belongings to make ends meet.

None of this would be happening if, when I was eight, the lawyer handling the sale of my childhood home hadn’t run off with £180,000 of our money, essentially our complete lifes savings.

My dad has always been poor, always been full of pride and he’s always kept it together, even as my mum deteriorated, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and my brother has been undergoing radiotherapy - he’s been a taxi, confidant, financial help even beyond his own means.. he never left me without. He’s watched his wife start to slip away from him, someone he’s been with for nearly forty years.

Yesterday, after his bike was destroyed, I listened to my dad talk on the phone.. and I thought… “Oh my god, he sounds like he’s going to go and kill himself.”

I’ve never been this scared for my dad.. and he needs to know that everything he’s worked his ass off for in life isn’t just going to Hell. He needs this.. so badly.

With this in mind… please?

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Anything at all is a huge help.