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When did you realize your daughter might be $5,000 short?
You wait until less than a few weeks before the trip, and then issue an emergency appeal to a web board community which you have barely interacted with in the six years since you signed up here?
Good luck with that...
If you want people to be more understanding of your situation, post a photo of you and your daughter, plus details of the trip (brochure/website), the total trip cost, and how much you/she have raised so far.
If she has been so ill up until a month ago, what makes you think she won't have a relapse, or that she is healthy enough to make the trip in a few weeks?
While you're at it, tell us a little about what you do in the adult industry.
Pardon my skepticism, but do exchange programs actually start in December, right before most schools go out of session for winter break? I hosted Japanese exchange students for years, and they mostly stayed a semester when school was in session, or during the summer break, which is several months long.
I genuinely hope your daughter gets to make her trip to France, but not being able to go at this time, is not the end of the world.
I quit high school at 17 and joined the Navy, and was able to visit most of Asia by the time I was 21. Then I spent 6 years in college. I finally made it to France about a decade later on my own dime.
If nothing else, your daughter will learn an important life lesson, and then continue fundraising and saving, so that maybe she can go to France as a graduation present to herself before going to college, or visit after college or when she raises the funds. BTW, most colleges have exchange programs too.
My best suggestion is for you to appeal to whatever communities you are most actively involved with (school, work, church, etc).
ADG
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