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My only older sister.

I have always suspected something was "off" with her.  She has only been able to hold down very menial jobs like housekeeping, nurses aid, fast food, daycare.  She got pregnant out of wedlock and had 2 kids with a loser and her left her. She quit working and played the system by doing these vocational training programs and then would work for 6 months and then get fired.

In the meantime my parents managed to take care of her until she was 37.  To make a long story shorter, my parents are both dead now.  Before my mom passed I told her I could not handle taking care of my sister and I would not be the one she could fall back on during hard times.  I tried many, many times to recommed some vocations for her that would provide more stability and she always said she did not want to do any of my suggestions.

2 years ago we had a huge phone fight and I have not spoken to her since.  Her kids are now college age (20/21) and float to different friends homes to crash.  My sister was left with my parents house (in the midwest).  She only needed to pay $180 month in property taxes...I repeat $180.00--no mortgage! Just utilities and property taxes.  BUT she is unemployed and the UE checks ran out. 
She refused to do daycare, or work at McDonalds and she is now over 50 and NO ONE will hire her (she has not worked since 2007).

A very distant cousin called me to tell me her water and gas have been cut off. She bums rides to get free food from a pantry, the house looks like hoarders and she lost weight and has a skin rash and smells.

We called a social service program but my sister REFUSES to be declared mentally unstable.  By now I assume she is homeless.  There really is nothing I can do for her.  I saw this situation coming as my parents were getting older and sicker.

It makes me sad, but I can't help her without pulling my own family down the rabbit hole. [/quote]

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