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RE: The @KidSisters Have Grown So Much 👧👧 Reflecting On Better Pre-Stranded Abroad Times

My goodness.
I dont' even know where to begin. My heart breaks for you and your family.

Thankfully - I look at their smiling faces and take a deep breath and I'm thankful that children have more resilience that we do as adults.
We see all that they could have had - and they just look at what is there.

I'm sure at some point - it will hit them very hard - but for now - their smiling faces really cheer me in the midst of your painful struggle.

I hope this all gets sorted sooner rather than later and I really hope that your interview goes well and you can get your family to a place where your joy starts to return.

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It is crazy how long this COVID-19 and stranded abroad mess has gone on. Afghanistan is proof that the stroke of a pen can change everything in a moment, and rules can be broken. I worked my whole life for minimum wage and built the wealth of other Americans before I left the country, and I have nothing to show for it except no insurance, bad knees, and a bad back.

I realize it's not a potential life and death situation like in Afghanistan, but I feel I've helped my country considerably in my life, and to be disrespected by both Cambodia and the USA in this time makes us feel we have no home. I've tried to teach our daughters to have no allegiance to flags and nation-states, but that loyalty should be given to our fellow human beings. Our experience is a brutal example of why I live this way, but I hope this causes our daughters to be winds of change for humanity.

Thanks for your kind words my friend, they are worth much more than any upvote.

Thanks for your kind words my friend, they are worth much more than any upvote.

our motto is "people over money" -always.

and you mentioned that its not a life and death situation - and we can be very grateful for that!!! because certainly - no one wants that EVER for their loved ones.

but - it's not a matter of comparison to Afghanistan. What they are experiencing is horror.

But what you are experiencing is also YOUR OWN HORROR.
for you, your family, precious moments ticking by.

without any end in sight!

The uncertainty... the questions... the waiting and the inability to make plans and having our hope dangled before us time after time - to have it ripped from us again with more bureaucratic trippings... THIS is the breaking down of our minds and spirits and wills.

this is the horror that YOU and your family are living through.

and i wish that there was more that we could all do to make this just end.

but no matter what we do - vaccine or not. masks or not. medications (that work because I was TREATED with medications when I had covid) or not.

this is a much bigger thing than what its being portrayed as. I think more and more people are realizing this now. and its not about "conspiracy theories" - its about the daily confusion and misinformation and trickery and division and hatred and abandonment that we are ALL witnessing day by day.

We are being treated like simple fools - and we are not. we have eyes and ears - and I wonder when the final straw will land on the camel's back

All I can say is I'm so sorry that you're in this. I'm so thankful that you have a place like HIVE to SHARE the truth of your experience - and I hope that the straw comes swiftly - but without too much more chaos. Because we know that is a very real possibility.

will pray for you and your family as soon as I hit send. I believe in the power of prayer!

Give thanks for this comment, you kind of left me speechless once again. Hive friends remind us we are not alone, and of course many others on this blockchain are going through their own struggles too. Thanks for keeping in positive thoughts and in your prayers.