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A friend is in need of help. This situation has been brewing for a while and exploded this week.


"I am a disabled military wife and mother of two elementary-aged kids. Due to a delay in processing transfer orders, my husband's move to his next base isn't lining up with the end of our lease. This means we are having to pay for our move out-of-pocket, with the military reimbursing it later. My husband is currently with his ship in another state, so all details of handling the move fall to me.

We had planned to borrow the money for this from my mother. She has always been slightly mentally disturbed; tonight, this hit new levels. In the past two days, she's attempted to kidnap my kids and threatened to kill my mobility dog. She deliberately chose the time when I would be sickest from my low-dose chemo treatments to do this. I severely doubt she plans to honor her promise to pay for the movers tomorrow.

The movers are going to cost roughly $1300. If you can help, please send money to my paypal account, marna.m(at)gmail.com. Please indicate if this is a gift or a loan; we will begin paying back loan amounts as soon as we can. Thank you."

The long form is here.

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Interesting

I got books in the mail today and yesterday.

Today, my author's copy of Curse of the Pharaoh's Manicurists arrived. Yesterday, i got about 10 copies of Ellora's Cavemen: Flavors of Ecstasy III.

There is a world of difference in these two trade paperbacks.


Cavemen sells for $14.99. It has 275 pages of story, printed on light greyish pulp stock, a step up from newsprint. The full color, semi-gloss cover is very thin, thinner than the cover of Taboo treats or Nocturnal Urges. It feels flimsy. And so far, I've read 5 of the six stories. I really liked two of them (one of which was mine) and thought a third had an interesting premise, but sank under too much sex.

Manicurists sells for $13.50. It's 1/2" shorter than Cavemen and has 139 pages of story. The size seems reasonable. The high-gloss, full color cover is standard weight. The interior pages are white standard stock.

The only thing nice about the Ellora books is the font. It is a well-spaced font, easy to read even on the pulp. Manicurists uses a font that I find just a little narrow.

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• 14:49 @nbrooks yep. Onward into THAT battle. #

Please to be sweeping them into the wastebasket now
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