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A couple of months back, I emailed someone I hadn't heard from in a long while.

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  • A couple of months back, I emailed someone I hadn't heard from in a long while. I told him it felt like the threads of our thirty year friendship were fraying.

    "No lost threads here," he wrote back. "Just complex dynamics." I got the hint. I won't write again.

    Last week, our sponsor on GoFundMe, the Irish artist and writer @lizcullinane, told me she had written to another friend of mine, to ask if he might be able to find accommodation for us to rent for the winter in the UK.

    "Have you heard anything from him?" she asked me, this morning

    "I didn't expect to."

    "I think he finds your situation overwhelming and intractable...I think many people do."

    We do, too. As the years have passed, as hopes have soared with various escape plans only to crater, as friends and even immediate family retreat from us, their empathy and understanding tapped out, and as poor health (mainly due to inconstant medical attention and access to medications) has taken hold, we find ourselves clasping at straws to remain afloat. We've lost sight of an end to this.

    "...Our slow voyage has been plotted between imprecise waypoints, episodes of misadventure, and random, short epistles," I wrote once here. But we've long since thrown away the charts. Wrack is a life raft, untethered and adrift. Except there's no rescue — nor a refuge just over the horizon.

    Still, against the odds, we hope and we remain resilient. We are still afloat...

    https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-in-search-of-home

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