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I moved to Portland about six months ago and I'm thinking of taking a trip to the casino near Lincoln City. I have never been and I'm wondering if it's worth the almost 2 hour drive? Should I stay out there over the weekend? Are the rooms nice? Is the food good? Any info would be nice. Thanks.
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This story is an entry for a Gear up essay contest for middle schoolers (i'm in 8th grade) the topic is "something hard you had to overcome" I'm not finished yet... I kind of ran out of things to talk about so PLEASE if you have any ideas tell me and tell me any errors or boring parts things like that :) thanks,
First, make sure you leave your daughter home alone. Make sure she doesn’t know where you’re going. Try to keep her worried the whole time you’re gone. Take the money you don’t have and leave from home. Get on I-5 South. Take the 99W exit in Tigard. Continue on 99W for approximately 22 miles. Take Highway 18W (Ocean Beaches) exit. Continue on 18W for approximately 31 miles. Your entire life will be located on your left, at Spirit Mountain Casino.
These directions were necessary for her. These directions were to a place that took you in happiness, and left you in regret. Without these directions she would become irritable, and lacked kindness. She lacked the qualities of a mother. Her interests in my life now became nothing to her.
Who am I? A child that needed a good listener. A child that needed friendship, the unconditional love and protection of her, my mother. Without the supervision of a mother I could have easily have done what I want. I was mature enough to not take advantage of the situation though. I knew what was going on from the start. I knew she didn’t have money because of this place. I refused everything she would try to buy me, because I knew they weren’t necessary. I knew that she didn’t have the money to buy me unnecessary things. I wanted to save as much money as possible.
I realized much later on that refusing my mom to buying things wouldn’t help the situation. The more money I saved her, the more money she had to gamble away. Living with only my mother I became adjusted to being alone. Perhaps that showed me responsibility. It showed me how to do things on my own, I cleaned, did laundry, still managed to do my homework and maintain a 4.0 average in school. When the mail came it usually brought advertisements from Spirit Mountain Casino, I burnt all of them. It was like taking care of a kid who was addicted to candy. I would destroy all evidence that would lead to the kid even having the slightest thought about a piece of candy. Sometimes I would to think to myself, am I the mom now?
Many times I would cry. I wanted a mom, I needed my childhood. I wanted somebody to hold me, I didn’t want to hold somebody else. I needed love from somebody. I wasn’t ready to give up my childhood and become my own mother. I wanted the attention I didn’t get. From this I became louder in school, I didn’t know why. I didn’t even notice that I was acting different at the time. I had nobody to talk to. All my siblings were in college, and my dad was the least person I would ever talk to. Sometimes I would tell my friends but I could tell they have never experienced what I was going through, they didn’t have much to say. I noticed that I was a lot more mature than my other friends. My moms addiction had made me more open minded. It made me grow up.
I loved my mom. I loved the mom she used to be. I loved when the casino wasn’t even in her vocabulary, or mine. After a year or two of this gambling addiction, I became immune to it. I honestly didn’t care anymore. This addiction had changed me and I was sick of it. She would come home with the look on her face. The look that meant she went to the casino and lost. I didn’t care, not one bit. I continued my life as normal. I’ve tried so hard and put so much effort into helping her. It became obvious to me though that she didn’t even want to help herself. I gave up.
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