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[funkymunky]

Seems there's some pent up issues. Do it, if you decide to. Or not. I don't know what your family like was like, but some parents just can't help out much, as much as they might like.

The gut reaction was sending that e-mail. How do you think she will feel now even if you decide to give it to her?

Are you close with your mother? Edit: sorry, reread OP.

[Vehn]

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I was raised for the most part by my grandfather

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what does this mean exactly?

[abarrenfuture]

What kind of teeth fixing? Braces? Dentures? New crowns? Fang implants?

[punkass]

Unless you were beaten or malnourished while growing up, you are in the wrong.

I would do anything for my parents if I had the money to give them.

[Empty_House]

If she had no part in raising you, you don't really owe her.

[oddjob]

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I can't believe you sent that to your own mother. How much money did she give you when you were growing up? Even if you don't want to give her the money, that's a pretty [censored] cold way to go about it.

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i'm honest to a fault sometimes. reading it over, it could have been put nicer, you are right. but for you to say 'your own mother' implies you have a very close relationship with your mother, i do not. as i said, she did not raise me and i've not seen a nickel of any sort from her since i was maybe 15 (i'm now 25). i see her maybe once every year, at most. we talk once every few months. we arent' cold or anything, just not close at all.

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i do not like my father, and for a good part of my childhood was not really there for me (even though he acted like he was). i would give him money if he asked if i could do it.

i know all situations are different, but it is your mother. give her the benefit of the doubt. then if she keeps coming back, you can come back and tell her no, and why.

[d-baggery]

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What kind of teeth fixing? Braces? Dentures? New crowns? Fang implants?

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