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Merry christmas to me. I found out 2 days ago that I have a little sister
Things about myself I shared on site: I am a male tattoo artist. I am sharing now I run away from home at 17, no dad, mom with substance addiction problem, she did not report my absence so I never heard of her in 8 years until 2 days ago, I found out by a guy that came to my shop to get a tattoo that he was dating her, wanted to tattoo her face in his leg and I found out I have a 5 year old sister. Man looks regular drunken man, I asked myself what should I do about this little sister. I cannot possibly provide for her, I have a stay at home girlfriend already, she would not like me adding a girl to take care of because I work 12 hours 6 days a week so I have no time left to be there and raise my sister, I know my mom is addict and that is why I run away, if I call CPS she might end up in the system and have an equal horrible life. The chances my mom is a good mom now are zero because the man dating her is like her a drugaddict and I do not know what to do. I do not want advice because I will possibly not follow it, I just want to tell my story. I do want to help this little sister even if I never met her, I just do not know what the right thing to do is yet. She might not even know I exist, I do not know anything now. Spent christmas thinking, still do not know what to do. I wil say this, if I can help my sister avoid the abusive he** I went through by calling the cops I would do it. I am too broken to know what to do, and as I said I do not want advice, I just needed to tell someone my story. Merry christmas everyone.

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@Panda happy christmas.

Well, i dont know if u will take it in a right way or not, but your story is reddit gold.
Its up to u mate.

Spend a lovely day with your gf, if today's not a holiday, then spend other lovely day with ur gf.
If today is not a holiday
@Panda I'm having hard time beliving this story but anyways I shouldn't judge. Merry chirstmas and I know you said you don’t want advice, so ignore this if it’s not helpful. I just want to say that caring about your sister doesn’t mean you’re obligated to solve everything. You didn’t cause this, and you don’t have to decide anything right now.
@Panda merry Christmas and in my opinion, ignoring a child(whoever that child is) when one knows for sure is being abused is not right