Lyd's mother won several million dollars recently. It's divided out over 20 years. The amount of the yearly prize is 2-3 times what I make right now, so it'd be living better and buying more art supplies and workshops if I'd won, but not exactly living large.
But still. Their lives are changing. Her mother offered her tuition to go back to school to be a nurse; it's self serving on her mother's part. Lyd earned a general BA last spring, not really having a goal for it, but defaulting to the idea of teaching. Then the idea of nursing came up and she researched prerequisites. Lyd has too much of a temper to be in a helping profession. I want Lyd to go to graduate school in something she actually likes, but then her mother might not pay for that.
Knowing her mother and the strife that follows her (I think of her like the evil step-mother in Cinderella ordering her daughters around), this will be another means of control. I sincerely hope they can find balance with this. I also hope that her mother doesn't gamble it away, too, because the addiction runs deep.
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That's hard. I'm finally at a point in my life where I just try not to deal with people with control issues like that. It's so confusing when they act like they're doing you a favor, but it's all on their terms. I hope Lyd gets to go back to school in somethings she loves.
First off, how did she win that much money! Curiosity is killing me!
Second off, money is the biggest pimp - so many people prostitute themselves in so many ways. I hope Lyd can go on a lovely, magical vacation but that is probably not likely to happen with her mother's winnings.
Yeah, as much as I bitch, I couldn't imagine doing anything ELSE w/my life... So I hope Lyd finds her true calling w/out letting the Mean Green distract her too much...
I figure that Lyd's mother either plays the lottery, or she runs a failing bank.
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