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Originally Posted by BoDiddleyMacau
Some incredible gems in this article, here are a few:
"So he sold his iPad on eBay for $200 and added some money he made working at his grandmother's Hebrew school. He billed the remaining cost of the skins to his father's credit card."
"When Grady Ballard saw the charges on his credit card begin to rise, he asked Elijah what he was spending the money on.....Once he calmed down, he told his son that he was taking $800 out of his bar mitzvah savings to pay his debts."
"Along the way, Elijah became adept at manipulating his parents. "He'd come into my office, which is right across from his room, crawl up into the fetal position and say, 'Mom, I did it again,'" Brenda recalls. "That triggered a pity reaction. But then, if I didn't immediately give him my credit card or bail him out, he'd get filled with so much anger that I worried he was going to break something."