Redux: “Help!” Is More Than Just a Beatles Song Title

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Tuesday April 03, 2012 · 10:11 AM PDT

2012/04/03 · 10:11

When I posted my diary “Help!” Is More Than Just a Beatles Song Title: A Desperate Plea for Help! yesterday, some comments strongly recommended that I post again today so that more people are exposed to it throughout the course of a full day in the various North American time zones. So I am posting an excerpt with a link to yesterday's full original version.

One additional note though before the infamous dKos orange squiggle. It disturbs me that my story of the last 2 or 3 years is shared by many others here in San Diego who I would never suspect. Just Sunday night when I was at a low point and despairing, a casual acquaintance who is becoming a close friend and who I admire with some jealousy for his success listened to my frustrations. He then lowered his voice and told me what he tells few if any: that he has been through the repo process and been foreclosed upon, that he lived in his car for 2 years, that he has starved in order to pay bills, but also that he survived and thrived and that there is hope for me. He had no idea until he was done telling his story that mine is the same. That sharing is what gave me the desperately needed boost to finish my diary and submit it.

If he reads this, ... Thank you, thank you, thank you! You have no idea how much you have changed my life for the better in that short time.

To everyone else reading this, too many others have also quietly shared their similar stories which don't end on as positive a note as his. Given the frequency with which I encounter that, I must say that something is wrong and the "system" is broken! We need to change that!!

And now, to the repost!

phonatic

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Monday April 02, 2012 · 2:26 PM PDT

2012/04/02 · 14:26

Let me be direct and to the point (a redundancy, I know!). I need help, I need it badly, and I need it quickly. And I am turning to the Kos community as a last resort. Literally.

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