Hello, my name is Avigail. My friends call me Gayil. 

Recently, my father was diagnosed with a kidney tumor. 

My father used to work very hard in his job. Since he got sick, my mother has taken on supporting the family herself. She is just one old woman carrying a large family on her shoulders. She works so, so hard and it is so difficult for her to see my father suffer as he does.

Now I am engaged bh. I do not want to ask for anything from my parents; they simply have nothing to give me. Our family doesn't even have what we need to pay the bills. It is really, really bad.

I know that hachnasas kallah is a huge mitzvah so I am hoping that you will please see our story of what our family has been through, of what my parents are still going through, and please, please help me.

Thank you & tizku l’mitzvos!!

Gayil 

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