{"id":313,"date":"2018-12-04T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impact.mcf.org.uk\/2018\/?p=313"},"modified":"2018-12-05T11:58:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T11:58:19","slug":"roys-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impact.mcf.org.uk\/2018\/2018\/12\/roys-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy\u2019s story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u201cWhen my daughter became ill four years ago, we took in our two young grandchildren, Adam and Amymae.<\/h3>\n<p>Of course, we are very happy to have them live with us, but we didn\u2019t realise just how much it would increase our outgoings. We only had our pensions and with two extra mouths to feed, the electricity bills and the cost of running them around to and from school, we really did start to struggle.<\/p>\n<p>I knew all about the MCF and so got in touch to see if they could help. 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