Helping my disabled sister.
My name is Bill. I am a 38-year-old single guy who loves playing and watching sports, as well as going out with my friends. I have a reasonable, well-paid job that allows me to work at my own pace most of the time.
Most of my friends are married already with kids in primary- or secondary school. I live in an up-market townhouse with a brand-new electrical Jaguar one of my many perks from my multi-national employer. As long as I attend bi-weekly meetings on a Monday morning and my team hits and even achieves more than their quarterly targets, I am mostly allowed to plan my own year and for that, I often get a nice annual performance bonus along with a new car every three years and usage of one of the company guest houses, either on the beach or deep in the countryside.
My mom is newly retired, and my dad plans to retire in two more years after both of them had been teachers and/ or lecturers for the better part of four decades.
As I stated before, I am 38, and my only sibling is a 35-year-old younger sister.
I am quite popular with my co-workers and there is absolutely no shortage of woman to socialize, or date, in my immediate circle.
I am in the privileged position to be able to take short breaks throughout the year rather than having a month-long vacation like most other people.
Our boss is very generous and is known to often grant us a long weekend - from Thursday afternoon to Monday- or Tuesday morning. Having a company car and being able to use the company breakaway properties for almost free, means that I have been able to build up sizable savings.
Cindy
Cindy is my younger sister, and because we are the only two children, we are very close to each other too. Cindy is as beautiful as her former prom queen mother with striking brown eyes in a pretty blemish-free face. If I tell you that Cindy is also unmarried and living in a modest, yet modern home in a small country town, you will think that she is gay or mentally challenged. However, she graduated with a B Com LLB Honors and also an LLM afterward and currently working on her law doctorate. She is a director of an international law firm specializing in immigration law. However Cindy hardly travels the country or the world, unless it is with me.
You see, Cindy was in the unfortunate position to have contracted polio as an 18-month-old which left her with serious disabilities and deformities. which caused my parents to put her in a special school for crippled children. She wore two leg braces (Hkafo's) and orthopaedic boots for her feet. Although her right leg was stronger than her left, she still needed ankle support for the right boot. The left boot was a total other story. Her left leg grew much slower than the right, and when she went to secondary school, her left leg was already four inches shorter than the right. In addition, her left foot was two sizes smaller than the right and turned inward at a 75-degree angle, which made her attempt to walk a laborious and difficult affair. She mostly uses a full-length crutch on her weaker left side and an elbow crutch on the right for balance. She could control her right leg to a certain extent but had to drag her short leg with the club foot behind her. At home, she uses a wheelchair after she got rid of the hardware supporting her legs. Her kitchen and bathroom were customized that she could use the facilities with relative ease.
Cindy, age 18