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Cathy recruits Ella to help her confront Maurice

Cathy carefully composes a note in English, using her French-English dictionary. She presents it to Ella, who reads: "Please help me. Maurice wants for other people to desire him. He says this to me. I am not sufficient? Speak to him please."

Ella puts her arm around Cathy reassuringly. "Oh, Cathy, my amie, don't worry. I'll handle this for you. I'll catch him coming out of work."

She catches Maurice in the parking lot of Liquor Warehouse. "Hey, stud," she greets him, much to his confusion. "I need to talk to you in private."

"Okay," Maurice says.

"I just want to start by saying I'm not blaming you," says Ella.

"Oh?" Maurice looks a little bit alarmed.

***

My friend whose Gofundme I posted a few days ago is in a dire situation. The fundraiser isn't going to hit its goal. Her house got foreclosed on, her car was repossessed, she has two kids including one who has socio-emotional disabilities even in secure times, and she has 5 rescue cats that she is determined to hold onto because they're all difficult cases. I ran out of ways to help her, and I feel terrible. I wish I had a place to let her crash temporarily, but we have a full house here, and we can't allow the cats because Typhoon is vicious and horrible with other cats - we already tried twice to take in other cats and it didn't work. (I don't need advice on that front - I'm very experienced in cats with behavior problems and the rescue thereof, and it's just the layout of this house plus Typhoon being a Force of Nature with no 'off' button.)

I'm backing off from bothering my friend with my half-baked ideas, but I feel rotten about it. Her survival plan is not perfect, but it might have worked before all her assets were taken from her.

Life is tough all around. We'll all be affected in some way or other, some more profoundly than others.