Jeannie thought for sure she'd have some backup after speaking her piece. But boy, the comment section of her livestream was blowing up.
"Why are you spreading rumors about a dead kid?" someone questioned.
"You're such a pain in the ass!" another spat.
"You're nothing but a lowlife, why aren't you the one who's dead!" someone else cursed at her.
Jeannie was gobsmacked by these comments.
"Listen up, I'm near her live stream location. You just wait, I'm gonna find her and give her what she deserves!" a comment read which scared the bejesus out of Jeannie.
She quickly stopped her stream and ran out of town.
In the middle of nowhere, Jeannie's stomach started to growl - she was starving.
Holding her belly, she burst into tears.
Why was it that she, the underdog, had suddenly lost all sympathy?
All she wanted was to cure her daughter's illness. What did she do wrong?
The death of the little nun was just bad luck, why was she the one being blamed?
Why was it that when Madeleine had a mental breakdown, people rushed to help, but when her own daughter was in the same boat, she was left high and dry?
Now her daughter was in the mental hospital and she was the one getting the flak.
She didn't even have money to eat!
Jeannie was crestfallen.
After walking a bit further, she suddenly remembered something and whipped out her phone to call her husband back home.
The phone rang twice before her husband picked up.
"You've stirred up so much trouble and you have the gut to call?" her husband admonished before she could even get a word in, "Our son's future marriage is on the line with a mother like you. I've told everyone that we're already divorced!"
"What did you say?" Jeannie was dumbstruck.
"Jeannie, I've put up with your crap for long enough. You brought a mentally ill child into the world and it's been nothing but trouble for me and our son. You've stunk up our family name and we can't afford to be dragged down by you anymore. I'll send your stuff to the mental hospital, don't bother coming back!"
Before Jeannie could even process what he said, he'd hung up.
Although Jeannie and her husband already had two kids, they only had a small ceremony and never officially registered their marriage at the city hall.
The plan was to have a son first and then register their marriage.
But their first child turned out to be a girl.
She got pregnant three times after that, all girls. They found out the gender each time and chose to abort.
It wasn't until their daughter turned five that they had a son, but then disaster struck.
Their daughter suddenly started showing signs of mental illness, almost strangling a kid from the village.
She was then diagnosed with severe schizophrenia.
Her husband, who never liked their daughter to begin with, became even more repulsed by her, and by Jeannie, who gave birth to her.
The idea of registering their marriage was dropped indefinitely.
Feeling completely devastated, Jeannie tried calling back, but the line went dead after a single ring.
She'd been blocked by her own husband.
The night was as dark as ink.
Jeannie collapsed onto the road, hitting her thigh and sobbing uncontrollably.
If she knew things would end up like this, she wouldn't have risked everything out of jealousy that Madeleine had people funding her medical bills!
Now she was broke, homeless, and under attack on the internet!
How was she supposed to get by from now on!
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