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I am not going to make it this month, financially. I wasn't counting on being screwed over by my (now) ex-boyfriend's dad on a tiling job that I invented purely as a personal favor to him. I will be at least 2 weeks without a shower, and I am forced to make the decision between buying food and paying the professional tile installer in hopes that I will have use of my bathroom again and the project will finally be complete--way off budget, way off schedule, and way off my sense of trust in people. My whole lifetime, without a thought, I have given to the extremes of generosity and tried to save people. I must stop myself from doing that anymore. The exception is saving animals because they can't help themselves.