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I have allways wanted a train set. I am only 13 now too. Ever since I was young I have dreamed of owning one. But my family can not afford anything near what I would like other than a circle track that was barely able to go around our x-mas tree. But it was a cheesy one too. It`s broken now after around a year or two. My mom and dad allways promised me that I could get my dream set. Until my dad`s company that he works at started to fail and his sallery got cut dramatically. My father allways promised me to do fun projects with me. It never happend. We would maybe get half way befor he stopped not caring. I guess it will never be that me and my dad do a fun project as a team. he did try at least once to help me through the hobby of model training. He tried to get rubber bands for the wheels of my trains so they could get traction. Thats only because mine wore off. The thing is we never found any. All the hobby stores near me never carried those parts. Except for one and they would charge us aroung $150. And it would take one week. For rubber bands that I could have even replaced in around 5 minutes? I Ieven said no. For $20 I could buy a new set including train and tracks. Although my dad never thought of that and now says I am too old for things like this. Well this is my story and I hope this helps some one els around the world. But don`t let my story discoourage you. I tried to do something about it, just not hard enough. So for the rest of you out there do something about it. dont waist time like me or els you mom or dad will do the same to you as my mom and dad did to me.
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