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JOSEPH PEDALINO, JR.'s avatar

Thanks for putting a point on what many are thinking. I know I am. 68 years of this living does not prepare you to mentally think about leaving but with time being short the daily flow of horror is not how anyone wants to get to the finish.

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Ashley W's avatar

This post resonated with me. I grieved when I left in 2017 and then again after the election results in November 2024. Once you no longer live in the U.S. and the Kool Aid is out of your system, you look gain a different perspective and suddenly some things now seem ridiculous, such as fighting with for profit insurance companies for basic healthcare, how some things can be legal in one state but illegal in another (and my husband and I are both lawyers and have sat for bar exams in 3 different jurisdictions each - can't believe we didn't think of it before), or that election cycles last for years at a time. The grief you feel when you leave under these circumstances is similar to how one feels when you no longer have either parent in that you lose your "center" and you know that even though you can visit, you can't go home again.

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