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Prelude: The Importance of Being Like Earnestine

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  She was a rare beauty both inside and out.  And when I met her, I just knew in the meeting of her - in that moment - that my life would forever be changed by her.  And I don’t know HOW I knew that. But I just did.  She was magic and she was fire and she was grace and she was love.  I was sent to where she was and since I was on a mission to find TheTruth, I went where “they” sent me.  And they sent me to Earnestine. Before I Ieft, Bobbi said: “Find Earnestine when you get there - tell her I said hi but that they’re doing me dirty like she said they would - but tell her not to worry- that I’m gonna be okay…”  I took one last long appraising look at Bobbi and I wondered if that would turn out to be true.  For her sake, I hope that it did  …but my mind was plagued with doubts about that.  Upon my arrival and “asking for Earnestine” a surly and overly rotund woman demanded: “What you want with her for?”  I replied: “I have a message ...
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Epilogue: Pandemic Memoir: Corruption Truly Puts the "ill" in Illinois

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November 17, 2023 World Toilet Day World Absurdity Day  *Both truly fitting for The End of this long strange journey   It seems only fitting that this long strange journey  which began in IL with a girl writing to her Governor, JB P, pointing out a lacking resource for victims of domestic violence and asking for help with same - that it would now, four years later, come full circle- to, THIS, my final letter to you, Governor Pritzker.  I truly struggled with how to end this Memoir for, much like the Pandemic, my ongoing cumbersome challenges are not at all “over” - and I now realize it was always fated to be this way. I’m still housing insecure, still languishing in poverty and fully dependent upon the kindness of others to help me through my chronic financial crises.  Because when your housing ALONE takes up 90% of your income, you are destined to never get ahead.  The system is not designed to reward initiative or business startups - but rather, to p...
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