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If you watch 19 Kids and Counting online, then you’re familiar with the plight of Jana Duggar.

The girl is basically a modern-day, basic cable Cinderella, forced to devote so much time to helping raise her younger siblings that – at 24 – she’s unable to have a life of her own.

Things have gotten so bad that Free Jana movements have spring up online, and the latest news from Duggar Land is unlikely to convince Jana devotees that they’re being melodramatic.

Sources say Jana was ditched by the Duggars recently, when most of the family went on a missionary trip to El Salvador.

Jana was reportedly left at home to take care of her four youngest siblings. Jessa Duggar remained stateside, but in the sort of detail that really drives home the Cinderella comparison, she was apparently being honored in a freaking parade!

“While Jessa is being treated like the homecoming princess, Jana is at home cooking, cleaning, and tending to four active, young kids,” a source tells Star magazine.

“The Duggars make thousands of dollars per episode. If they have to be gone, they can afford to hire a babysitter now and then to give Jana a break.”

Insiders say Jana is “exhausted” from a lifetime of helping to raise her younger siblings. We don’t blame her. Were exhausted just hearing about it.