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🫢thank you for everything
I'm sitting in my car in the car park outside the dental clinic where I work and I've been crying for ten minutes straight 😭 Puffy eyes, fogged-up glasses, mascara everywhere — I honestly don't care. I just hung up from a phone call that changed my entire life and I need to tell someone before I completely lose it. My name's Laura Martin. I'm 23. I work as a receptionist at a dental clinic in Auckland. Not the dentist, not the hygienist — I'm the girl behind the front desk who books your appointments and smiles even when everything inside is falling apart. I've always dreamed of becoming an interior designer. Back in high school I used to redesign every room in our flat, rearranged Mum's furniture when she was out, and by 16 I was already doing moodboards for my mates. It was my thing — I felt it in my bones. After school I found the perfect programme overseas. Exactly what I wanted — placements at real design studios, a qualification that opens doors all over the world. The cost: about $35,000 NZD in tuition per year, plus accommodation, flights, and everything else. Total for the first year: close to $48,000. My parents are regular people. Dad drives trucks, Mum does the books for a small company. We're not poor — we never went without, we always had what we needed. They'd even managed to put a bit aside — about $12,000 in savings. But $48,000 is a completely different story. One evening Dad sat down with me at the kitchen table. Mum was standing by the stove. He looked at me and said: "Love, your mum and I have gone through every option. Loans, payment plans, the lot. We can't make it work. We want to more than anything, but we just can't." And I saw him look away so I wouldn't see his eyes. Mum had her back to us and was quiet, but I could see her shoulders shaking. I said: "It's all good, Dad. Don't stress. I'll figure something out." But all three of us knew — that $36,000 gap wasn't going to fill itself. I got the receptionist job. Decent pay, clean
