{"id":109676,"date":"2013-12-07T15:03:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T20:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/?p=109676"},"modified":"2013-12-07T15:03:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T20:03:37","slug":"rent-a-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/rent-a-family\/","title":{"rendered":"This Woman Looking To Rent A Family For The Holidays Will Make You Want To Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109677\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109677\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/5619007182_7178c0772a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109677 lazyload\" title=\"rent a family\" alt=\"rent a family\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/5619007182_7178c0772a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/5619007182_7178c0772a.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/5619007182_7178c0772a-280x186.jpg 280w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/333;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109677\" title=\"rent a family\" alt=\"rent a family\" src=\"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/5619007182_7178c0772a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/5619007182_7178c0772a.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/5619007182_7178c0772a-280x186.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tucamon\/5619007182\/sizes\/m\/in\/photolist-9ywT5b-apRXRJ-apPfug-apRXQA-apRXJ9-apRXLs-apRXCj-apRXDf-apRXqq-apRXSN-apRXGS-apRXMy-apRXFJ-apRXPS-apRXVj-apPfZB-apPfW8-apPfS4-apPgaH-apRXyu-7QFiWC-b3C3Xx-7TUzeK-aaRWGF-bvnVLS-aP7jYe-8DNNHt-8aQvHN-epJwt5-b7SSER-eoMXKx-i7EJGD-gks3mw-9hmrya-eRUwuN-beXGj6-feb3C4-8nFMuH-c18PbS-gKRssY-i7E8bF-ekh7xA-ekbmgZ-ekh7vN-epJFyL-b5X3oP-chFyVN-9F1eQx-c1HQys-chFzUo-chFzuy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Espacio CAMON<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Okay, get out your weeping rags people (everyone has a weeping rag, right?). This is the most heartbreaking but also uplifting story I&#8217;ve heard this holiday season.\u00a0<strong>Jackie Turner<\/strong>, a college student from Rocklin, California is looking for what we all want for the holidays &#8211; a supportive family. And she&#8217;s looking for it on Craigslist, of all places.<\/p>\n<p>Turner placed an ad on everyone&#8217;s purveyor of filth and free end tables looking to rent a supportive family for the holiday season. I&#8217;ll give you a moment to cry deeply into your weeping rags (this is a THING, right?). Her ad reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am looking to rent a mom and dad who can give me attention and make me feel like the light of their life just for a couple of days because I really need it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turner comes from a rough background. According to her interview with Rocklin&#8217;s local news station, News 10:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;On the outside, it looks like I&#8217;m the American dream kid,&#8221; the 26-year-old said. &#8220;But I have a back story that most people wouldn&#8217;t believe if they looked at me today.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turner says that she was sexually, physically and emotionally abused as a child and spend years on the streets and in gangs. She was arrested a few years ago for grand theft auto and spent a year in jail, which led her to clean up her life and attend a camp for troubled youth. Now she is a presidential scholar at William Jessup University with a 4.0 grade average. But she lacks the one thing she says she really needs this time of year &#8211; a family:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s still something deep inside of me. There&#8217;s this void, my biological parents aren&#8217;t here, and it&#8217;s kept this hole inside of me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The headline of her Craigslist ad read &#8220;I want to rent a mom and dad&#8221; and in it she said she would be willing to pay $8 an hour for them to<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Just to sit, just to listen,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Just to cry with me, no strings beyond that. I&#8217;ve never felt the touch of my Mom hugging me and holding me. I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like to look in my dad&#8217;s eyes and feel love instead of hatred.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you just want to reach through the computer and give her a hug?<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, hundreds of people have come forward to be there for her, free of charge. This is the best kind of holiday story there is. 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