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Help the Bennett family thru fire aftermath

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Hello everyone, my name is Celeste and I am creating this gofundme for my family. We are located in Lafayette, Co in Boulder county. I truly hate to post, especially with the significant needs of so many needing to be addressed in Boulder county but I have tried every channel I know of and that has been suggested and I still am in need of help. My husband works for Murphy's in Louisville, he has been a line cook there for a few years now. As some of you probably know, Murphy's was closed for several days because of the fire and even though it is open again, my husbands hours have been drastically lowered given the lack of business. He works two jobs, Murphy's in the evenings and he also works for his dad doing concrete work during the day. In fact, several of the foundations in Louisville and Boulder were done by their company. Unfortunately, with the weather he hasn't been able to do much concrete work either so we have taken a huge financial hit between the weather and fire. We were already struggling prior to the fire due to him needing to take some time off for my medical issues (I was diagnosed with two auto-immune diseases in the past two weeks and was actually in Lakewood having surgery the day of the fire. I had to send my husband home to evacuate my mom in Louisville and be home with our kiddos, my mom and my sister and niece in Lafayette because our house was in a pre-evacuation zone.) We are a paycheck to paycheck family so I am really struggling to figure this out. I have some pearls and an entertainment center for sale ( they are about the only thing I have of any value) but I've had them listed since before the fire and now obviously is not a good time to try to sell anything.  We are very quickly falling behind on all of our bills and are struggling to afford our daily needs such as gas and food. I feel ridiculously guilty about posting this. At this time I feel like people should be focused on the gofundmes for the victims who have lost their homes and precious belongings or who are still displaced with a home that is damaged. I really just need some help so we have room to breathe a little. We have three kiddos, my youngest is going on two and has delays, my son is seven and special needs and I have a thirteen year old who was a victim of a horrific crime last year and we are still moving through therapy and trying to heal from that trauma (Boulder county recently postponed jury trials so we don't even have an idea of when the person will be tried for his crimes : ( My problems are trivial compared to what so many are going through but I hope maybe someone could help us. Thanks for reading through my long, probably TMI post. Sending love and strength to my beautiful community.
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    Celeste Bennett
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    Lafayette, CO
    Sam Gamble
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