Cover letter for petitioning i-130

After P-Ranking every Act 3 level and completing P-2 (which effectively means you need to P-Rank all of 3 acts, excluding prime sanctums), On the level 9-1 (TREACHERY // FIRST, ACT III CRESCENDO) you can enter a door with 10 "P" letters on it. Entering the door leads to the level P-3 also known as PRIME // THIRD
P-3 consists of similar to TREACHERY layer architecture with its blood-red ice and constant snowfall of blood. As the player enters the level a soft music starts playing. The first room consists of a long ice hallway, the ice being non-transparent bloody color. The further away V1 goes from terminal the more distorted the music gets, after a one-minute walk in this hallway player sees a door.
As the player enters the room, a horrible ambience of screaming and evil microwave noises can be heard on the background, as in the huge room appears 3 sentries, 2 maurices, idoled virtue, a mindflayer and 4 swordsmachines. Even though these are all enemies of acts 1-2 this room is still tough. After destroying the idol, along with remaining virtue , room fills with life again as 10 cerberi, 4 schisms, 2 more mindflayers and 6 streetcleaners appear to effectively destroy your ass.
After you kill them all AGAIN, a very different song starts playing and tension starts to build. With no other choice you leave the way you came in, and the boring hallway's ceiling falls apart revealing a big room with bloody waterfall and a new set of enemies spawns in. This time the enemies are - 2 guttermen, a whole set of 1000-THR Def System, 4 more sentries, 2 blessed stalkers and [insert some tough fraud enemies]. You need to kill all the other enemies first before proceeding to kill the stalkers
After you finish off the last stalker the floor under you collapses into YET ANOTHER very small hallway, and as you walk in 2 cerberi and a blessed virtue spawn in. The virtue can't be killed because the idol is in the other room
I am too tired to think bout the other room so pretend its hard ok? like reeeeeeeeeeeally hard
As you finish the last room the music slowly fades, ice hallway slowly turns into something resembling a church made out of frozen bricks. One. Last. Door. You enter it, and there is a terminal nearby. "Good luck" it says. As you approach the middle of the room, before you stands... IT.
FLESH CRUCIFORM [Music - HATE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1uQSHjPR2U ] Flesh cruciform is a fleshy tesseract-shaped object, the flesh constantly changing shape as tesseract can't be seen in its full form, at least in 3D. It is chaotic and attacks are very fast. It has 4 main attacks A red flash, followed by a barrage of Normal hell projectiles, Mindflayer hell projectiles and HM hell projectiles, all coming at V1 rapidly A while flash, followed by a barrage of virtue beams, attacking you from X, Y and Z axises, at the same time, thrice. A purple flash, followed by 3 quick black holes Spawning 2 big eye minions (which have the same HP as Maurices) that completely disable all damage to Cruciform (just like idols) AND disable your healing AND fully heal cruciform if even one eye is alive
All these flash attacks are happening very quickly and WILL easily kill the player, but as the cruciform inevitably dies to the unstoppable force of V1.... A very.. VERY different boss spawns...
"And as i go free, you may wonder... Am i the one? Of cource i am, I'm the one you moron. I am the son of GOD! I HAVE BEEN SENT DOWN BY MY FATHER TO LEAD HIS FLOCK TO PARADISE. TO ATONE FOR THE SINS OF ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN I AM IN ONE FLESH WITH THE DIVINE AND OF THE LINEAGE OF ABRAHAM. I WILL BRING FORTH A NEW AGE, AND A NEW COVENANT!, SHALL BE MY LEGACY! I WILL VANQUISH! ALL EVIL! IN MY FATHER'S NAME! AND YOU STAND BEFORE ME! AMEN! ......Get ready to recieve some holy spirit, lamb of iron."
Jesus Prime [Music - LOVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_dDo8pulE8 ] Jesus Prime is the third and incredibly powerful Prime Soul boss, and represents the soul of Jesus, so powerful and destructive that it became prime, and was a huge threat to heaven, so the god himself had to lock his son into a Flesh Construct. He appears as a buff, tall half-transparent green man with comically large head, the only system present in his body being the circulatory system. His fists are shining with light-green sun-like aura.
Jesus has 5 voiced attacks and 1 non-voiced. The attacks are:
NOT WELL ENOUGH! Jesus teleports above V1 and slams downwards creating a shockwave, then teleports to V1 and almost instantly punches him (can be parried) 5 times in a row. Uses 2 stamina Damage: Direct slam - 90, Shockwave - 25, Punches - 33
FACE ME! Jesus teleports to V1 and hits him with his head (parryable, parry deals 3 damage to Jesus). Uses 1 stamina. Damage: Headbutt - 50
THE SON OF GOD! Jesus teleports right in front of V1 and punches him twice (parryable), then launches an orb-like projectile AKA holy bomb (parryable) that explodes in a cross-like area. Uses 2 stamina. Damage: Punches - 33, Explosion - 50
YOU BETTER PRAY! Jesus launches 5 holy bombs, teleports behind V1 and punches you in the back (parryable). Uses 3 stamina. Damage: Explosions - 50, Punch - 33
YOU'D BETTER HOPE FOR A MIRACLE! Jesus teleports near V1 and explodes himself, creating a huge cross-like explosion. Uses 3 stamina. Damage: Explosion - 90
[Non-voiced] Fuck with the living Jesus teleports to V1, kicking him in the face (parryable), then stomping on the ground creating massive shockwave. Uses 1 stamina. Damage: Kick - 50, Shockwave - 30
Jesus has 90 HP and 3 healtbars (3 phases) In 1st phase jesus behaves normally In 2nd phase jesus grows wings of light like Gabriel, and begins to fly around instead of just walking In 3rd phase jesus gets covered in sand... Good fucking luck,
Just as the other Prime Soul bosses, Jesus has a hidden stamina bar,
HARMLESS/LENIENT - 7 stamina in all 3 phases STANDART - 7 stamina in phase 1 and 2, 14 in phase 3 VIOLENT - 8 stamina in phase 1 and 2, 20 in phase 3 BRUTAL - 14 sta in phase 1, 20 in 2, INFINITE in 3 ULTRAKILL MUST DIE - Always infinite stamina
After defeat, jesus screams "YOU BETTER PRAY I DO NOT COME BACK!", then "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA", flies up and explodes.

I hope this isn't a dumb question - I am the parent of a fourth grade girl who was diagnosed with dyslexia recently and this is all pretty new to me. I hope I'm missing something, actually, because I'm confused and pissed and sad.
This ended up being longer than my single question - I guess I am actually really pissed off and sad about the last nine months in general, and I am completely open to any feedback, advice, or ideas about what to do now and how to help my kid. This is the first time I wrote all of this down and the irony of writing a novel on a dyslexia subreddit is not lost on me.
I'm leaving it lol.
Cora has always been brilliant and weird and loud, but over the last few years, it became apparent that she was having a harder time....stopping. Stopping talking, stopping moving, stopping yelling - it was just endless and exhausting for everyone around her. (Except at school. She is and was perfectly behaved at school - she has literally never gotten so much as a note home about goofing off in class.) Cora hit a wall in third grade - the hyperactivity was finally wearing her out, too, and annoying her friends. She finally asked for some help slowing down.
She was tested for ADHD and the general host of common mental health conditions last fall, and to no one's surprise, was diagnosed with ADHD-combined type, as well as anxiety symptoms that the psychologist described as significant enough to warrant a GAD diagnosis…but that she strongly suspected were a perfectly rational reaction to the very real problems Cora’s impulsiveness caused in her life.
This was exactly my experience as someone diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. It turns out that the consequences of constantly losing my car keys, forgetting appointments, and impulsively spending money I didn’t have were making me anxious and stressed, not the other way around. I had expected similar results for Cora and I was glad this was happening now - she could skip the years of totally ineffective treatment and misdiagnoses that I went through before being diagnosed and successfully treated.
What we were not expecting at all was the additional diagnosis of "specific learning disorder with reading impairment" noted in the report. I had no idea what this meant. The psychologist did not use the word "dyslexia" in her written evaluation, a decision which resulted in another 8 months of confusion and (probably unnecessary) testing detailed below. She explained to us that Cora could have dyslexia, but that her testing wasn't granular enough to be sure - that there was a chance it was "something else" and the SLD diagnosis was an umbrella term that covered both dyslexia and conditions unknown. (I have no idea what she was referring to and the general weirdness about using the word dyslexia was something I noticed with the school, too. I am still confused by this and other interactions where I get the distinct feeling people aren’t telling me something important.)
It was almost September, so the psychologist recommended pursuing testing with the school; this seemed to be a reasonable next step. They would test Cora and determine exactly what was going on, if anything. This whole part of the report was very much characterized as an incidental finding - something to follow up on, but nothing alarming given Cora’s history of good grades.
"Maybe she was just tired after a long day of testing,” the doctor explained. “But it also seemed like she wasn't hearing certain letters correctly." Years of speech therapy had helped Cora correct all but a few minor issues - but combined with this potential reading issue, maybe an audiologist should test her again. Get her hearing tested, start medication for ADHD, and see what the school says about her reading - that was the plan, no big deal.
I wasn't worried, but I figured it couldn't hurt to see what other help was available. I learned that we have a branch of a big tutoring nonprofit in our city that offers Orton-Gillingham instruction at no charge - something I soon realized would cost hundreds of dollars per month at other centers. Free is good! I submitted Cora's application and the report from the psychologist (with the ADHD/GAD/SLD all clearly noted)….and we got a rejection letter a week later in the mail. Cora didn't qualify because the tutoring was specific to dyslexia, and the SLD with reading impairment was not the same as a formal dyslexia diagnosis. Fair enough, I thought - I figured we'd get the testing done through her school and could reapply if the result was a dyslexia diagnosis.
That....was naïve, lol. But the psychologist made it sound like a total non-issue, something schools did all the time. I sent the school psychologist and teachers the report before school even started, since surely they would want to schedule all of this right away! I didn’t hear anything for a few weeks – the start of the school year must be such a busy time, after all – but raised it again, report in hand, at a meeting with Cora’s teacher in late September.
“You….really want to try to avoid putting a label on things too quickly,” she told me, in a tone that implied there was much more that she was not saying. “She seems to be doing quite well in class. Let’s see how she does on the standardized tests we’re finishing this week and go from there.” I was definitely aware that I was missing something, but it seemed reasonable to wait for Cora’s test results if they would help inform next steps. Cora scored well above average, as usual; shortly after receiving these scores, the school psychologist emailed me to let me know that no further testing was warranted.
I still felt like I was missing something – spoiler alert, I was – but there didn’t seem to be anything else left to do. They're the experts and were totally unconcerned – only positive news - and Cora’s new ADHD meds seemed to be really helping. After that, everything did seem to be okay at school for a while. Cora liked her teachers and was doing well.
Everything was copacetic…except for the fact that Cora’s anxiety seemed to be getting worse without any tangible explanation. She complained about fourth grade being a lot harder, but again – her grades were fine, she was perfectly behaved, she liked her teachers….it was difficult to identify any problem that needed solving. Soon, Cora started getting home and isolating herself in her room for over an hour every day. She seemed stressed. Worn out. This went on for months.
And then she had her first panic attack on a Sunday night, seemingly out of nowhere. She wanted a mental health day Monday and was back in school Tuesday, seemingly her normal self.
The next Sunday, she had another panic attack, and this one was much, much worse. She lost control of her bladder. I was close to taking her to the ER. It was scary. That's when it all came out. She was DREADING school - her two hours of ELA in the mornings had become “torture.” She was white-knuckling it through the reading, writing, and spelling work, totally clueless as to why it seemed so much harder for her than for other kids, but so determined to get good grades that she had just burned. the. fuck. OUT.
She was home for days after this. The school tried to dismiss my concerns at first - it couldn't have been that bad, I was told. To be fair, my concerns were vague because I still didn’t understand the real issues or how to help Cora, either. Cora was clearly unwell and adamantly refused to return to school. I started putting everything in formal, written letters emailed to all of her teachers, the school psychologist, and everyone else who seemed potentially relevant. I told them I wasn't sending her back until they did something to try to figure out what was going on in ELA.
That was mid-February. We had a meeting before I would agree to send Cora back, where they talked about putting together the "interdisciplinary team" to conduct "extensive classroom observation.” They insisted that this process would take at least 60 days to complete. Cora reports that there have been three days where someone has essentially come to her ELA class and stared at her while she works.
We weren’t just waiting for the school, though. After the psych eval last summer, we had been slowly working through additional evaluations and appointments related to Cora’s hearing, speech, and language abilities. Basically, we were working our way from Cora's ears into different regions of her brain, trying to catch problems along the path that sound waves traveled - entering Cora's head as vibrations in her ear canals, winding into her brain as phenomes, assembling into a stream of recognizable words, converting into meaning in entirely different areas of her brain, and eventually emerging again via her speech. I had no idea so many tiny things could go wrong in that process, but they can - and we can get pretty damn granular in order to figure that shit out when there’s a potential problem. Cora had some weird results here and there - we now know that overlapping speech is basically her Kryptonite, which explains a lot of meltdowns at family gatherings over the years. But on the whole, her ears and her brain are doing fine, and she doesn't have autism, either.
We had been lucky to get hooked up with the best child development team in the area - they were wonderful, and the process of more testing and visits seemed to reassure Cora (and us, honestly) that there was more help on the horizon, more answers soon. She started low-dose Zoloft for the anxiety and seemed a little happier; her anxiety about school was starting to morph into resignation and frustration, which actually seemed healthier in a way. "It takes time," they tell us. Her breakdown was in February. They wanted to see the report from the most recent evaluations. Fair enough; although it is not lost on me that I am paying an outside team to do the school's job, at least it's getting done.
Two weeks ago, we finally got the team's report - and the written words, "developmental dyslexia." The lead psychologist is going to meet with the 504 team at her school - he is wonderful and immediately understood so many of Cora's concerns and needs. I'm not exactly optimistic, but it's at least possible that this may result in accommodations/extra help in school. Cora thinks he walks on water and is so excited that he's going to "stand up for" her.
The report is detailed and confirmed a lot of what we suspected. She's a really bright kid - IQ around 120 with sky high mathematics and nonverbal problem-solving scores. She apparently discussed "conundrums that are complex and abstract in nature" during her sessions, with a "recognition that there is not necessarily a solution" to these mysterious issues. (LMAO....this is my weird and wonderful kid.) The report describes Cora as "delightful" - funny, self aware, and highly motivated to learn.
Her reading comprehension score was in the 90th percentile, essay composition in the 70th - spelling scores came in at the 25th percentile, which was no surprise. Pseudoword decoding was poor - she's in the 14th percentile - and it got worse from there. Cora has an oral reading fluency in the 9th percentile, a basic reading score in the 7th percentile, and a word reading score in the 4th percentile.
In fact, the essay composition score was the only "average" score among dozens of measures of her reading, writing, and language abilities - comprehension was universally excellent and decoding was universally abysmal. It was hard to read. It felt like a gut punch - looking at the single-digit scores, I finally realized the insane degree of effort it must have taken to finish her work and look happy doing it.
The developmental psychologist leading the team told us that it was unusual to see that stark of a difference - that the severity of her impairments are usually associated with average comprehension scores at best. I have tried to wade through research about these instruments, but decided to take his word for it. Typically, the deficits in her basic reading skills would set off a chain reaction of lower scores down the line - but Cora had brought her grades and tests scores up from an already high start at the beginning of the year.
"It's no wonder her anxiety symptoms are increasing - she's completely exhausted," he said. "Imagine what she could achieve with the right kind of help."
I realized then why Cora's high scores and good grades, so impressive to everyone else, were such a source of consternation for her. That chain reaction was still happening, getting in the way of what she was actually capable of achieving. She knew it, even if the rest of us didn't - she could do better with the right kind of help.
I honestly feel sick thinking about it. She never told anyone she was struggling, never asked for help - not from us, not from anyone at school, heck not from her former-literacy-teacher grandma. No one had any idea. My husband and I had actually encouraged her to slow down a little in the weeks before her panic attacks, just out of a general sense that something was brewing despite her repeated insistence she was doing fine. Turn in the worksheet a day late, three sentences is plenty, relax. Unthinkable, Cora insisted, she was fine.
So she's back at school, nothing has changed other than the glacially slow 504 process of "observation" occurring in the background sometimes, but she seems to be a bit less stressed. I can't tell if getting pissed off about the situation is helping her deal with it, if the Zoloft is taking the edge off, or if she's just masking harder now. Maybe all three. 18 more days of school and Cora is counting. them. down. Her teachers and support staff seem generally bewildered by the idea she is or was ever struggling. They were caught totally off guard when I abruptly pulled her out of school until we at least got them to commit to the 504 process – but we had been blindsided too. They saw a happy kid who was thriving academically until her parents pulled her out of school and started a process that no one seems particularly committed to finishing. Sometimes I think they don't believe us at all. Maybe I would feel the same way in their shoes, I don’t know. I think they’ll listen to the doctor.
The entire point of this post, though, was to ask about Cora’s second rejection from the local tutoring program. With summer approaching and the diagnosis of dyslexia (versus maybe-dyslexia, maybe-whatever-else-could-be-included-under-the-SLD-“umbrella”, which I am still unsure is even a thing), I've been looking into all sorts of options for tutoring. Summer is a good opportunity to try to start getting Cora some meaningful help without adding yet another thing to her plate. She's excited. We can build some tools before next year - if we know what works for her, we can be better advocates from Day 1.
So I resubmitted Cora's application - I still had my original email and I just attached the shiny new report to that, explaining where to find the magic D word that I fully expected would finally open a door where Cora could get the right kind of help. This new report was more granular with reading testing, but the dyslexia diagnosis was the one really substantive change. It included Cora's ADHD and anxiety diagnoses, as did the report I submitted with our initial application, but with new information about medication and treatment for these issues - progress!
(I would like to point out at this point that ADHD and anxiety are firmly established as two of the most common comorbid diagnoses for kids with dyslexia, and that anxiety symptoms in particular can occur because of the challenges caused by dyslexia. My daughter had full-blown panic attacks at 10 years old largely because she struggles to FUCKING READ and no one was helping her. I know I am preaching to what little choir is likely left at this point in my novel. But especially as someone who was medicated/treated for depression and anxiety for 20 years before anyone agreed to test for, diagnose, and treat the ADHD symptoms that were causing me to regularly fuck up my life in really depressing and stressful ways…..this chicken and egg shit really hits a nerve.)
Anyhoo, it had taken 8 months and a lot of work, but I had finally done this one cool thing for her - Cora was going to get the right kind of help. The school year is almost over, but at least we had this one success. The obstacle that I’m still not sure was warranted in the first place – the lack of the word dyslexia in the initial evaluation – had been checked off what was now a giant list of obstacles in Cora's path.
And thanks to the generosity of people who had probably heard and experienced a lot of similar, frustrating stories, our family could focus on paying off the bills accumulated in the process of getting to this point instead of adding more to the pile. Free is always good, but sometimes free is a godsend.
Twelve hours later, Cora was denied again, this time via a brief email simply noting the GAD diagnosis in both reports. "Our tutors are not trained to work with children who are diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorders" and they "cannot meet her needs."
That was it. No further explanation. Just…fuck your anxious baby girl who is trying so hard and fuck you for trying. NEXT!
Oh, and P.S., fuck the really significant percentage of kids with dyslexia with comorbid anxiety diagnoses who are incredibly well researched and described in just…all of the fucking literature. Just all of it, honestly, for decades. Fuck those kids too.
People seem to treat the word "dyslexia" like it's the only thing that matters sometimes but also not something that should be ever said in other contexts, AND I'm pretty fucking sure that "SLD with reading impairment" is essentially equivalent to the word dyslexia because no one can explain what else might be under that "umbrella," and apparently it's nigh impossible to get meaningful help for my daughter through the public school systems anywhere in America, and giant nonprofits care about kids with dyslexia so much, but not the anxious ones, better lock the doors before get their needs all over our tutoring center!
We will figure out how to pay for help for Cora, that’s a given.
But honest to fucking god, have you guys just been putting up with this shit the whole time? I'm so sorry.

Hi guys! I have a newly five year old who has been complaining about eye pain for a bit here. At first I thought allergies/headache/ whatever. One night she comes in my room and says that she can’t sleep because her eyes hurt when she shuts them. I’ve felt that same pain before, so I emailed her dr about finding an eye doc and they said they want to see her, we schedule a sick visit with a random doc. We go in for the appointment, the nurse gets her and says the doctor wants an eye exam. She asks if she knows her shapes or letters. I said yeah she knows both. She goes with the shapes. House, square, heart, circle. She points to the first one, my daughter says square. It was a house. So the nurse points up to them where they’re much bigger and asks what each one is. I guess to check if she knows the name of the shapes. (come on she’s five????) Points back to the smaller one. She says square again. Nurse keeps asking her over and over until she changes her answer, for every single one she gets wrong. Then she covers the other eye and gets them all correct. Anyway, nurse tells doctor that kiddo passed the test. Is this normal? It felt odd. Like she just kept asking her til she changed her answers. Would you still take your kid to the eye dr or just let it be?

Hello, I hope you're having a good time! I'm looking for someone whom I can have conversations with in the long term but if you want to have a short conversation, that's okay as well. Who knows if we get along well and end up being in touch for years? I prefer talking to people within the age range of 18–25 as I have talked to older people all my life but it's fine if you're a bit older than the specified range.
Please read the post entirely before you decide to send a chat request or message. It will take about five minutes or more depending on your reading speed. You may skip this post if you can't bother reading it. This is only for people who love reading and typing lengthy messages, because that's the only way we can communicate with each other when we don't get enough time to have real-time conversations. I am mentioning this only to save your time; I don't mean to come off as rude. The messages I send can be way longer than this post if we happen to click, and people who can't read the post entirely won't bother reading my messages properly either, and that would be a waste of time and energy for both individuals. You might have seen my posts very often in case you visit this subreddit on a regular basis, but I assure you that I only post so frequently because I don't receive any responses—and when I do, they're from people who either can't hold a conversation for long or message me without reading the post at all.
A bit about me:
I'm interested in all types of visual and aural arts. Writing, drawing, listening and composing music, watching movies and photography (I'm an amateur though) are my interests and hobbies. I'm broke so I'm not a gamer. I do have a fairly powerful PC but with a low-end graphics card I play older games on. Nothing online though.
Speaking of music, I'm mostly interested in Jazz, Funk, Hip-Hop, R&B/Soul (both classic and modern). I like listening to The Weeknd, Prince, Michael Jackson, Bruno Mars, Sade, Aaliyah, The Isley Brothers and various artists from the 70s to late 2000s generally. I'm a movie buff so I can recommend you movies too if you're looking for something to watch. And yeah, I LOVE MEMES! Keep sending them all day and I won't complain!
I'm an ambivert (more of an introvert though). My MBTI is INFP-T if that matters. I'm looking for people who are willing to share the events which occur in everyday life, joy and sorrow, secrets, deepest fears, and build a genuine connection over the course of time. I'll be there for you throughout the good and bad times; I expect the same from you too. I am active on most social media platforms. We can move on to other platforms once you feel comfortable with me.
Now here's the important stuff:
I would appreciate it if you don't just send me a "Hi/Hello/Hey." Introduce yourself; the longer the introduction is, the better. Makes room for questions. Instead of simply stating that you like movies/music, mention what genres you prefer. Makes the conversation more interesting. Please put effort into maintaining the conversation. Ask plenty of questions with the data I have provided in this post so I know that you're actually interested in getting to know me as well rather than simply talking about yourself. I feel like an interviewer if the conversation is one-sided. Don't bother messaging me if you're not naturally inquisitive and just want to talk about yourself all the time. I won't respond to any short messages (4-8 lines). If you want to leave, don't ghost me without stating a reason if we've been talking for longer than two weeks. Just tell me that we can't get along if you think the conversation isn't going anywhere. I won't get offended.
Your gender, race, sexuality don't matter at all, but tell me your age and gender just so that I know who I am talking to and follow social etiquette. I absolutely love lengthy messages; I don't feel overwhelmed by them. So bonus points if you're capable of typing lengthy messages. I'm a person who would spend an hour(s) typing a well-thought lengthy message rather than having small talk in real time. I type as if I'm writing a letter. I can chat in real time as well, it's just that I don't get much time throughout the day and I'm active at odd hours. And time zones exist, unfortunately. Short messages or long messages, the amount of time and energy you have to spend will be the same anyway.
Please don't message me if you're just looking for people to kill your boredom and later abandon them. No, I'm not being rude. I have had enough. Those one word or one sentence responses lead nowhere. Also, if you're someone who wishes to stay anonymous forever even after talking for a considerable amount of time, I'm not the person you're looking for. This is an important thing to keep in mind. I am open to revealing my identity if we get along well so I would appreciate it if you're open minded as well. But that doesn't mean I want you to reveal your identity in the very beginning itself. However, I won't wait more than three months just for you to reveal your identity if we communicate regularly. In fact, it's a great feat to converse for longer than a month on the internet. I personally think that anonymity acts as a barrier in any kind of relationship. I would love to meet you in real life at some point in the future if we get along and stay in touch for a considerable amount of time.
In the past 12 years, I have talked to several people around the globe on different platforms who wished to stay anonymous. I had conversations with them for months and years, but they always considered me as a stranger and eventually left. I'm tired of being a disposable person. What's the point of having a friend without a name and a face? I have no reason to trust someone who doesn't trust me. You can call me picky; I indeed am. I don't want to have conversations where both parties only ask each other about hobbies and interests and leave once they feel there's nothing in common. That's the reason why I asked you to cover those topics when introducing yourself. And just because I have already talked about my interests and hobbies doesn't mean there's nothing more to know about me. Human connection is a lot more than mere interests and hobbies.
I would love to interact with someone who doesn't treat me like an AI chatbot and acknowledges the fact that I'm an actual human being with feelings and emotions beyond the digital screen who spends his valuable time and energy to communicate with people—precious time and energy that I'll never be able to get back. I understand that these connections over the internet are very fragile and I can't control things the way I want so if you're interested feel free to send me a message anyway. I enjoy having conversations with people even if only for a while. Sometimes people you expect to be in touch for years leave you while the ones you don't expect to be in touch for long end up staying for a long time. Nothing is set in stone. All I ask you is to not leave without notifying me. Yes, I know whatever I have expressed so far sounds contradictory, but that's how life works, right? Reminds me of this quote by Japanese author Haruki Murakami:
"Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?"
While I agree with the fact that it's not possible to get to know a person entirely, I think connecting with another human being is a beautiful experience in itself. In the end, we are just lost souls yearning for human connection; searching for people who will provide attention and affection and accept us as we are. If you're still reading this, it means you are a good listener and reader. Message me if we have similar interests or ideals and if you think we can be potential friends. It doesn't really matter whether we have similar interests or not though, I would love to have you as a friend.
There's a lot more to learn about me but I would rather tell you all that when we begin interacting with each rather than typing it all here. Feel free to ask me any questions. I'm open to having a conversation with people around the globe any time. I'm also very patient so I don't mind waiting for weeks or a month if the messages are lengthy. I understand that you might find all of this intimidating, but there's nothing about me to be afraid of. My messages can be lengthy, but only if you reciprocate my efforts and keep on adding stuff to the text. I know that this post sounds like a contract. I know I sound very serious but that's not entirely true. In fact, I can crack jokes sooo bad that will make you laugh. Thank you for spending your precious time reading this post. What are you waiting for? Text me right now! Feel free to message me even if you're seeing this several hours or days later.
Have a nice day/night and I hope you find someone to develop a strong bond with in case I'm not the person you're looking for. Take care of yourself and always stay hydrated!

It was summer. He needed money to pay for school next year. He decided to get a job. He needed to apply to different places. He first made a resume. He then made a cover letter. He walked around his neighborhood.

Shams Rehman
I came back to Mirpur from UK after a decade and so much is changed that requires a book to cover the processes and aspects of the change. Not only the depressive markets appear buzzing with economic activity despite the price hike or inflation, but it seems that politically this region is entering into a new phase. Youth is marching away from the Valley centric to the AJK centric politics. From the irrelevant and abstract ideological rhetoric to the life- issues based activism reflecting the lives of AJK people. The Mirpur division in general and the city of Mirpur in particular which was the cradle of independent Kashmir politics since 1950s, is presenting a hope for leading the home of Beitish Kashmiris towards a new kind of progressive and inclusive politics amidst concrete walls of tribalism and sectarianism. I leave the wider analysis of Mirpur for another time and focus on what seems to be a clear evidence of political change in this part of the divided and disputed state of Jammu Kashmir.
Right now, there is an interesting debate going on between the government and ‘Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), an amalgamation of diverse groups and opinions formed last year, about the deployment of 600 personnel of Punjab Constabulary (PC) in ‘azad’ (free) Jammu Kashmir (AJK). While the PM and Home Minister of AJK claim that we requested Punjab Civil Armed Forces (CAF) to increase the security of Chinese nationals working on various hydro power projects across AJK, leaders of the JAAC are circulating on social media the request letter dated 22nd April 2024, sent by the chief secretary of AJK government to the IG Punjab. The letter does request the deployment of ‘six additional platoons of CAF to strengthen the capacity of AJ&K police to ensure foolproof security of Chinese nationals and our strategic national infrastructure such as Neelam-Jehlum Powerhouse, Mangla Powerhouse, [and] Gulpur Powerhouse.’
However, in the next paragraph it also states that ‘we are also now faced with the calls of shutter down and wheel jam strikes from May 11th onwards given by the sub-nationalists and disgruntled subversive elements.’ Why the prime minister of AJK needs to deny in public that the CAF are invited to deal with the JAAC activism when the request letter clearly uses the JAAC activities as an additional factor to justify the deployment of the civil armed forces from Punjab? And What is actually going on in ‘azad’ Kashmir?
The only reason I can think of the denial by AJK PM of inviting forces from Punjab to deal with the planned JAAC activities is the peaceful nature of the JAAC movement and widespread public support it enjoys. This is an old tactic of the era when public had little access to the happenings in the government corridors. They fail to realise that now almost every official correspondence is leaked out because many officials within government offices are actually also fed up of the corrupt nature of governance.
While the Awami Action Committee was formed in 2014 on the lines of a similar people’s movement in Gilgit Baltistan, another part of the Kashmir Dispute under a relatively greater control of Pakistan, the current phase of ‘People’s Movement’ was initiated in July last year from Rawalakot city of AJK where few civil activists and traders started a ‘Sit In’ outside of the flour depot to protest against the shortage of subsidised flour. The act was soon followed by Sit Ins in other parts of Poonch Division and then spread to Mirpur and Muzaffarabad divisions with more demands added including ‘free electricity’ for AJK. The first ‘Jirga’ of the Action Committee was held in Kotli district where it was decided that ‘Sit-Ins’ will be increased, and a boycott of electricity bills payments will be launched till the government agrees to provide electricity free of cost. Some people mentioned the ‘No Revenue Movement’ against the increased rates of Maharaja Hari Singh government in 1930s to crush which the British troops were sent to Mirpur and four activists were hanged. However, people still did not pay the unjustly increased revenue rates which Maharaj was forced to take back. Awami Action Committee convened its consultation meeting in Muzaffarabad, the capital of AJK which was attended by hundreds of activists from all ten districts of AJK and issued a formal list of demands after a marathon discussion lasted more than 24 hours.
The name of the committee was changed from ‘Awami Action Committee’ (AAC) to ‘ Joint Awami Action Committee’ (JAAC) and a core body of 30 leading members was elected with three members from each district. They called the list of demands the ‘Charter of Demands’ with the demand of free electricity changed to the provision of electricity on ‘cost price’ from Mangla Dam. Other main demands included the price of flour subsidised to the rates of Srinagar and Gilgit Baltistan, withdrawal of luxurious privileges to the ruling classes, restoration of students’ unions, construction of a grid station in AJK, implementation of the court decision regarding Neelum Jhelum Dam, and completion of all projects across AJK. In short, the movement is against inflation, subsidies and better use of local resources for AJK people.
After some protests and shutter downs across AJK, the government formed a negotiating committee, and several rounds of negotiations were held with the JAAC. In a joint press conference after the last round of negotiations spokespersons of both negotiation committees announced that agreement is reached on all issues except the electricity bills. In principal government committee agreed on the provision of electricity on cost price but required time for working out how much is the cost price per unit of electricity from Mangla Dam.
According to the leadership of the JAAC, government was supposed to issue notifications on all other demands to the relevant departments and move bills in assembly for implementation. However, this was not done and the PM speaking to Mirpur Bar Council few weeks later claimed that demands are met, and matter is resolved. He claimed that the main demand of the JAAC was to freeze electricity bills to the pre 2022 prices which has already done.
The JAAC instantly issued statements that our demand about electricity bills is to take out all the daft taxes and provide the electricity at the cost price. They also stated that the matter is not resolved and wont be resolved until notifications about each demand in the Charter of Demands is issued and implementation process is meaningfully initiated in accordance with the agreement in all relevant departments. When no practical step was taken from the government to implement the agreement the JAAC announced that protests will be organised on 5th of February 2024. Since 5th February is marked every year in Pakistan, Azad Kashmir and amongst diaspora Kashmiris across the world to show solidarity with the Kashmiris in the Indian Occupied Kashmir, the government of AJK denounced this decision of JAAC as against the ‘Tehreek Hurriyat e Kashmir’ (Kashmir Liberation Movement).
The leadership of the action committee rebutted by saying that so called solidarity is mere hypocrisy of the AJK rulers who always abuse the plight of Kashmiri in the IOK to hide their mega corruption and inability to provide a responsible government in AJK. Therefore, the purpose to organise protests against the AJK rulers on this day is not to undermine or damage the cause of Kashmir’ but to expose the AJK rulers.
On the night of 4th February 2024 another round of negotiations was held between the negotiating committees and the government once again greed to take necessary steps regarding the Charter of Demands. However, the JAAC waiting some time announced that if the government does not take required steps by 30th April 2024 they will call for People’s March on 11th of May 2024 from all towns and cities of AJK and gather outside of the Azad Jammu Kashmir assembly in Muzaffarabad where they will stay till the demands in the Charter are addressed properly. On the arrival of CAF protests are being held in different towns across AJK and preparations for the 11th of May march are enhanced. Now news of potential arrest lists is being circulating on social media and JAAC has announced multi layers of activists to lead the march if the top leadership is arrested.
The key point they are making is that during one year of the movement not a single incident of violence happened anywhere in the AJK or as they say ‘ not a single vase is broken’, eik gamla naheen toota. Then why invite civil armed forces from Punjab? One reason offered by some activists is that the AJK police is not trusted by the government because the demands of the JAAC including electricity on cost price and flour subsidies are also echoed by the AJK police and all employees who are not privileged and get affected by the high rates of electricity, gas and flour subsidies etc.
Naghman Arif, a lecturer of English literature at Mirpur Degree College who have recently resigned to participate fully in the progressive politics to improve the conditions of the downtrodden population in Mirpur stated ‘the current AJK leadership is increasingly becoming irrelevant. They did not expect people to come out in such large numbers to participate in the protest calls of JAAC.’
He made an interesting point stating, ‘the AJK government and obscurantist leaders tried to contain the movement by using typical tactic of branding the movement as ‘anti-Pakistan’ and ‘backed by India’ or ‘Indian will use the unrest in AJK against Pakistan’. They do this to divert attention from their irresponsible and blatantly corrupt governance. However, now the youth of AJK has understood these tactics and are no longer willing to tolerate the politics of divide and rule rooted in the tribal and feudal super structure. The younger generation is rallying around the JAAC and people’s rights politics and is ready to make any sacrifices to replace this expired and outdated system with a more responsible government through healthy, positive, constructive, and progressive system of government. What Pakistani rulers need to understand is that the movement in AJK is not against Pakistan but is for the basic right of the people and to expose the corrupt and outdated system of government in AJK.’ He further stated ‘hitherto ‘azad’ Kashmir has been ruled through restrict, lofty statements and sweet promises. Now we have entered in the era of deliverance. Younger generation no longer is interested in charming speeches but practice. That is what I will work on along with the youth of Mirpur from all shades of opinions.’
Saad Ansari, one of the main leaders of the JAAC in Mirpur warned the Pakistani authorities that ‘any use of force against the peaceful march on 11th May will make the situation worse and seriously damage the image of Pakistan at international level as diaspora Kashmiris who hitherto protest against Indian atrocities in the IOK will also stage protests outside of Pakistani embassies and their links with the AJK will be weakened further.’
While JAAC is fighting against the unjust electricity bills and wide inflation in the streets, lawyer of Jammu Kashmir majority of whom while standing with the JAAC also fighting inside courts. The legal battle has started giving positive results. Yesterday ( Tuesday 7th May) the High Court of AJK has directed AJK government to explain the list of taxes collected with the electricity bills in writ petition titled “District Bar Association Mirpur President Imtiaz Raja Advocate (Time) and Faisal Manzoor President Mirpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Time)”.
The court of AJK also directed the AJK government to respond its stance within 15 days over an identical writ petition filed by Imtiaz Raja Advocate about inordinate delay in construction of much-prolonged Rathuaa-Haryam Bridge over Mangla Lake in Mirpur and the payment of compensatory funds to additional families of Mangla Dam effectees.

I was six when I met Suzie, she had been there first one to make contact as much like I am now, I was the quiet type, reserved. Well behaved. I suppose it has always been in my nature to be somewhat of a goodie two shoes. And for the most part, Suzie was similar yet she had seemed to have her energetic outbursts whenever she was away from home; at school, during sleepovers at my house, on the way home. But she would become reserved once she neared her house. Being a kid, I had never thought about it much, I had put it down to strict parents, something I knew about too.
We had become fast friends, her parents seemed happy enough to let Suzie stay over at mine whenever we wanted, and since we were both well behaved; my parents never minded too much. Only the odd comment that I can remember. We would spend the afternoons watching shows and playing in the street with some of the kids in the neighbourhood, we would have dinner then make up stories before bed. I didn't notice it much back then but it seemed Suzie spent more days at my house than hers, we were both only children so perhaps the loneliness was a familiar battle for Suzie too.
Suzie and I became inseparable, like sisters as she used to say. Our friendship lasted into our teens and we had started mapping out our lives together, two girls from a small town in the south of the UK ready to take on the world. We were determined we would walk down the streets of New York one day, shopping bags on our arms and turning heads. We would laugh about it all the time. It wasn't until I was older, in my teens that I realised Suzie's homelife hadn't been as normal as I suspected. I was used to seeing disagreements between my parents but Suzie's parents seemed to go beyond that and I had felt stupid for not realising sooner.
And, as strange as it may seem, one memory had jolted forward right after I witnessed an argument between Suzie's parents as she entered the house after walking back from school. One aspect of Suzie that made a little too much sense; she was particularly good at playing hide and seek. She had a winning streak that had been going for years. I was never able to find her and as a result I would end up just shouting for her to come out. Coincidentally, a reoccurring dream had started around the time I first met Suzie, it was nothing particularly strange but I would be playing hide and seek with no one in particular and a voice would always tell me to hide under the sofa. It was always the same place. I had thought that maybe the dream and Suzie were connected at some point and that was where Suzie might be hiding, so on the following game after the potential connection that's where I had looked first but she was never there. So the connection I had been so sure of soon faded from my memory.
To describe Suzie, she was the spitting image of her mother, more so as she had grown into her teens but she had always been bright and happy despite how things had been at home. Things had changed for a while though, when she was thirteen her mother left, rumours say she disappeared, others say she left because of Suzie's father, others speculated her father had some violent involvement as her father had a short temper and was inclined to ge physical but that all came to pass as she turned up some years later to finish things for good; a quick divorce and a ransacked safe before she did truly disappear. I know that had been hard for Suzie, it had all happened so quickly that she spent weeks staying with me, and given the situation, my parents kept their mouths such.
She had eventually returned to her normal self, we were eighteen when we were planning our first girls trip. It was only to Brighton but we were excited to go to the beach and be adults, we had it all planned out and I had assumed her father wouldn't of minded, since he had never seemed to care where Suzie was at anyway. But that weekend where we were supposed to have fun had turned into my nightmare. I had waited at the train station for over an hour waiting for Suzie, she wasn't the type to be late but this was our first trip alone and put her lateness down to forgetting something. I had eventually asked the help desk to use their phone as I hadn't any coins on me to use the payphone. I had called a few times but she never picked up, neither did her father. Something in me, in that moment, sunk. Down. Deep into the pit of my stomach. An ache of pain and worry but I hadn't much reason for it in the moment. It wasn't until ended up getting back home that news of Suzie's disappearance had been thrown at me, well, not even at me. I heard it as my mother repeated the words while on the phone. By this point it had been a couple of hours and appearances she had been missing since late last night, according to her father. I would later learn that her father hadn't known about the trip until the day of. Somethings about his story never sat right, Suzie had said, only one time mind you, that her father didn't like the idea of her going too far. She had also off handedly mentioned she suspected that he was worried she would do the same as her mother. Leave him. I knew Suzie liked to keep the peace and just did as she was told. I guess that just made things easier for her to deal with.
The following days. Weeks. Months. A slow and unfruitful investigation to my best friends disappearance seemed to eat away at the small community of people in the town, myself included. The rumours. The theories. The new articles. The interviews. They soon fizzled out after a year and Suzie had seemed to become much like a distant memory after a few years. Not to me though, I could never forget her. Her suitcase had been packed. Her tickets had been neatly tucked in her diary. Perhaps it was morally wrong but I had read her diary. Many times. Trying to find a clue. A hint. Anything to tell me where she might have been. Where she had gone. Why she had left so suddenly. And without me. We had told each other everything, so why not this?
Her disappearance has eaten at me for years, no matter how I put the fragments I had of her homelike together, nothing ever made any sense. There were no hints on my memory, in the time we spent together. I couldn't think of a single thing that could tell me what happened to her. I had moved away from that small town as soon as I could. I had been plagued by her memory and the ties that kept her in my memory and in my surroundings at every turn and so I had ran from that. Yet it still followed me, trailing far behind but still ever present in the back of my mind. It wasn't until I got a letter at the office that I was left utterly dumbfounded. For whatever reason, unknown to me, I had inherited Suzie's family home. I knew that Suzie's family was severely limited but it wasn't until I did a bit of digging that I found out that all the other family Suzie had was on her mother side and all that disappointed when her mother left and her father had no other family. So, for whatever his reasoning was, it was left to me.
The house spent a long time sitting before I had come back to sort out the legal side of things as I planned to clear the house. Keep some of Suzies things and sell what I could before selling the house. I hate it but I didn't want any ties to the house, to the town, to Suzie, it was too painful to bear. Even as I was sorting through documents and junk that was collecting dust, I couldn't help but think about how the police had searched the house a number of times, as if they were certain of something but nothing had ever come out of it and of course, they had suspected Suzie's father first but eventually he was cleared. It wasn't until I had worked my way through all the small pieces of furniture and the decoration pieces that I was left with large spaces and big furniture. I was happy to leave it at that. But something about the living room felt so off. I had only ever been in Suzie's house once. And that was when I had been around eleven. But I never did remember the lime green, shag carpet in the living room. I remember hardwood flooring. It struck me as odd as I would've definitely remembered the colour but the carpet looked old, like it had been placed their decades ago.
I tried to ignore the realisation and tried to doubt my memory, and I did just this for weeks until I couldn't stand it anymore. Something about that carpet. Something about that spot where the sofa was. Something about Suzie. And so I went back at the crack of dawn, moved that three seater sofa across the room and pulled up the carpet. And just as I suspected. There was hardwood floor. Old. Worn. Stained. A deep brown smeared around. On top. Nearby. Like a bad attempt at retaining the wood. A reason to cover it up with carpet. But my memory and my dreams hadn't been for nothing. Because there's a hatch. And I think I just found Suzie.

As you all may know already, there has been quite a bit of "drama" in the sonny angel community lately, and its all due to these 4 girls, sonnyangelmama (Ana), kilo.flow, gabysfunkyvibes, and laurenindreamland. I know there are already a few Reddit threads about this but this is just an overall one to compile the majority of the story + I saw some people who were confused in the other threads about what happened. (The photos provided are related to the most recent updates, which I will address later on in the message, I know this is a long thread but just bear with me! This is just to cover the whole situation + some of my opinion on it and its late and I have free time LOL)
It all started when these 3 artists (the first 3 names mentioned) got emails from Dreams telling them to take down their Sonny Angel/Smiski related products due to copyright infringement. Ana and Kilo got emails whereas Gaby got a message on Etsy. At first, Gaby didn't believe it since it was a message on Etsy and seemed unprofessional, and her listings ended up getting taken down. These 3 artists then proceeded to post about it on their Instagrams, completely stunned that Dreams would threaten them for copyright infringement... (and lets be honest, I'm not sure why as their art is either traced or just an exact copy of sonny angels, and Kilo especially is using a direct mold of a sonny angel to create her product, which is all meant for sale and profit and not personal use, without the permission of the company) but, when they posted about it they said Dreams was a big business praying on the small businesses and that they were wrong to call for a cease and desist, which resulted in MANY people going straight to their Instagram page and harassing them in the comments and completely slandering them. Which I get this is how some of them make an income from this, but you can't really be surprised when you're using their models/designs and calling it sonny angels/smiskis. Like you wouldn't be able to create your own Hello Kitty sticker design with the base drawing of Hello Kitty and then call it "Hello Kitty ____ sticker" because of copyright... Anyways, on the side, Ana was DMing Dreams to get answers and they ended up responding to her later on, saying that they did not send those emails and that someone had been trying to report their accounts since February but didn't take any action.
After finding that out, Ana posted on her story that she had important information and to join her live, to which she said Dreams said it wasn't them, but instead trolls. Ana completely name dropped two girls, Nathalie and Lupe. Ana is quite known for being a bully, and in her live people were getting all riled up, saying to sue Nathalie, and everyone was saying to unfollow her and comment on her posts (but she had already limited comments) and people kept @'ing them in the live calling them out, and when people were asking how she knows it was them, Ana didn't really give any concrete evidence, other than saying that her and Nathalie had beef in the past so this is Nathalie's way of being a hater and trying to take her down. Which if you saw the live, Ana's behavior was quite worrisome knowing that she's a grown woman, and a mother. Encouraging bullying and harassment is just insane to me, and she just kept name dropping them with no basis. IIRC, Kilo's brother, Ridge, was also saying in the live that him and Kilo have the time and money, and would be pursuing legal action. Also while this was happening, Ridge dm'ed Lupe accusing her of sending the emails, and when Lupe asked for proof, he did not provide any and said that his lawyers said he can't disclose it, and that he shouldn't even be talking to her but he wanted to "giver her a chance." After the live ended, the 3 artists posted numerous photos, showing that Dreams did not do it but it was internet trolls. Some people asked for a name drop in the comments, and Ana said that they didn't have the evidence to find out the culprits (Which I heard she deleted her comment, I can't find the screenshot of what she said but it's in one of the other threads I believe) and Gaby said that they don't care to find the culprits because they have better things to do, but they said that after Ana literally name dropped these girl's names so confidently in the live? I also heard that Ana said they knew it was her because she got the IP address, but that is literally not how that works... One of the other names I mentioned in the beginning was Lauren, and here is how she plays a part in this. She was also fueling the fire with these 3 main girls, by also name dropping in the live and proceeding to post TONS of memes, dissing the girls, and even mentioning their names in one of them, but censoring it with asterisks, which is giving bully/mean girl behavior... and I'm sorry but these are all grown women who are 26 or around that age. Sort it out in the DMs, there does not need to be all this drama online. When I first started collecting, I was raving to my friends and family about how sweet the community is, and I was so excited because I made so many new friends and I was able to help with my social anxiety by going to meetups and meeting new people, but now I don't think I can even say the community is so sweet anymore... There's always drama every week, whether that be on the Discord server or other social media apps.
Now going onto the current situation, Kilo got a cease and desist letter in the mail from Dreams, asking her to take down her stuff due to copyright, and also provided proof of her products (which are quite literally molds of sonny angels) and her brand name was also "Partly Sonny Angel" You can not be surprised that you are getting this letter when Sonny Angel is in your brand name and its a direct copy of their molds. Kilo is also accusing Dreams of stealing her designs because they're dropping a clear fan, and in my opinion, clear figurines are not new + they have had prototypes of glow in the dark figurines which are somewhat translucent/clear, so I don't think clear things (such as the candy store series shorts) aren't a new concept. I'm not sure why the people in Kilo's comments are defending her, and they're even dragging someone who commented that legally, this is copyright and they were genuinely just curious about the situation, and people instantly started attacking that person and saying they're a hateop. Kilo also has been trying to make a point that Sonny Angels are based off of Kewpie babies, which is true, they are INSPIRED from them, but they are not an EXACT copy of them, Kilo's products are LITERALLY MADE FROM SONNY ANGEL MOLDS there is no mistake in that, her mold is from sonny angel and her brand was partly sonny angels. In a legal view, Dreams has all the evidence against her and I don't see how Kilo thinks she would win this case, as I see her in the comments of her post saying she's going to fight back and she won't give up. Now regarding to the images, the first image is the letter she received. The second one are some of her creations, including her brand name and its clear to see its an exact copy of the angels. Images 4-5 are her telling people that Sonny Angel stole the kewpie design, which is just not true at all....
Now regarding image 6, this is a screenshot of a DM with Ana (this is not my Dm with her, it was sent to me) The person was saying that Ana needs to apologize to the two accused girls publicly, as she has not said anything about the situation at all (as well as Kilo and Gaby, they have only talked about the C&D and items getting taken down on Etsy) but none of them have ever addressed how they wrongly accused these girls and haven't apologized. Ana says that she would love to talk to them if they contacted her or unblocked her, but why is that their responsibility? Why should they have to reach out to her for an apology that is rightly owed to them? If she really was sincere about her apology, then she would've found a way to reach out to them or just public apologized, 100% there would be people who forwarded it to them, which could then result in them unblocking and talking it out. She's just looking for excuses to not apologize, and I think a lot of people know Ana has always been a bully, and she hated on that girl with an army and also told people to shut up about Palestine. The only thing Ana has addressed is reposting Kilo's post, nothing else. Only Lauren has addressed the situation and public apologized to the girl, although it didn't seem like the most sincere apology, and she has continued to defend this 3 artists while they say nothing on the situation, kind of crazy to me that they would allow Lauren to get dragged while she tries to defend them. And if you're reading this Lauren, Ana, Kilo, or Gaby, then I hope you learn from this and apologize to those girls sincerely, and also realize that in the legal world you are also in the wrong here. (Also, if you did make It this far, thank you for reading! I know it's super long, I got carried away, but if I did miss out on anything then please add it in the comments!)

i am 47 years old, i have always had a nasty cough, but i get super active in the spring and summer with biking, hiking and other random stuff. in my early 20's i smoked cigarettes and weed but maybe for about 3 or 4 years and was a heavy drinker, but really this was just this short period of time and really having touched any of that stuff for about 20 years now.
i have avoided going to see health care providers for most of my life, even when i had great benefits i just didnt go. the last 10 years or i finally started seeing professionals due to a cough and shortness of breath.
the health care provider i had been going to did a spirology test, but never got back to me with the results, i called and called and eventually learned to stop asking.
a few weeks later, still coughing like crazy btw and hard to breath, i had developed pains in my guts and back from the (at the time) 3 months of almost constant coughing. i was starting to have issues with blacking out from the coughing and a friend of mine's wife is a doctor and heard about this and said call an ambulance now. instead i drove my self to the ER at a different hospital than where i had been going.
the ER did all sorts of tests, xray, mri, held me there for maybe 10hours, got the cough under control and fed me steroids and other stuff and set me up an appointment with a nurse practitioner within their hospital maybe a week later. (edit: just remembered i had a seizure while i was in the ER. i dont remember much about it, but the staff told my parents, they showed up at the hospital with me i think, it was likely nothing and just brought on from hyperventilating.)
as i was saying a week later i see a np and she gave me some cough suppressant scipts, steroids, maybe antibiotics as well. had me come back a week later and did more of the above and ordered a pft test a few days later.
i did the pft test and they wouldnt call me back with the results. again i called and called and 3 weeks later they call only to tell me that there was a slight problem but an inhaler would take care of it as needed.
i went to my follow up appointment which was again just a few weeks later and i asked about the pft test and the np said oh yeah you have stage 2 copd. i am not an emotional guy, it just seems like it should have been shared with me sooner and not mentioned nonchalantly as it was, more than anything i perceived this as incompetent and has me concerned about the level i care i may receive in the future, but perhaps this is normal?
the np also said i should not return to my job as it sounds like the work environment may be triggering my symptoms as it can be dusty some times, new building work. i told my boss and he said maybe we can figure something out some how, mind you i have not been back to work at this point but maybe 4 times in the last 5 months. the doc told me to stay home and rest until we get this under control.
i have savings to hold me over but im running kinda low now at this point and i asked the np to put what she said about my work in writing so i can give it to my boss or any one else who may need to see this and she said she wont be doing that. i said but my work may require it and she said well let me check around and see what i could do. she had her nurse call me and say that they wrote up a letter and i can come get it anytime.
i go to get this letter this week since i have another appointment anyways and it says i can in fact work, but i have to wear a mask due to my copd. this is not what i have been told the 3 or 4 times i have asked about going back to work this entire time. THIS ENRAGES ME, but i didnt read the letter until after i had my appointment that day and im not sure what to do about this. again, this points to incompetency to me, this may get me fired.
also during my last visit which was this week, i said so what do we do with the copd, she said this is it, this is your life, this is all we can do for now. i told her this diagnosis changes things, i likely have had this for a while, and i still plan to get into shape like i always do every spring/summer, i told her i had also ridden my bike about 3 times in the past couple of weeks and felt good, but sometimes just walking across the room makes me winded like crazy.
i asked why is it that walking from my car to the house winds me but i can hop on my bike and ride for an hour and she said thats just how the body can be some times. i asked so is there more testing, any more follow up and she said not really, and scheduled me for another checkup in 3 months.
i may sound bitter but i am not, i am great full for the care the second hospital gave me, i feel they have me on the right track.
i dont know what todo next regarding these three things:
1 how am i supposed to work my job with a mask, its already hard to breath. also her telling me all along that i cant work that job anymore, but the moment i asked for it in writing i am denied and when i pressed them on it, they said they would then they would but come back with a letter saying i can work but i have to wear a mask. is there a special copd approved mask? will my insurance cover it? or will any old covid surgeon mask work? my boss is cool and likely will not fire me, but anything can happen and they might be expecting more than a peice of paper saying i need to wear a mask. i would have asked the np while i was there, but i assumed the letter they gave me would reflect exactly what they had been telling me all along. how in the world am i supposed to deal with this this job seeking, people are not going to hire me wearing a mask? am i supposed to tell new employers i must wear a mask?
2 does it seem like i am on the right track with these new health care providers? is it true that you just live with stage 2 copd? i could have sworn that the np said that there would be things we can do if it come back positive with copd, medications, treatments, more tests?
3 how to live my life? am i supposed to take it easy? i feel dizzy at times and have noticed my balance is off which is weird for me. i noticed i drift while walking now, is this related? am i overdoing it with the bike riding? i have ridden a bike a lot since i was a little kid and its so easy for me, but its not like go fast, 6 to 8mph atm, in the past i would ride about 14mph for 2 to 3 hours straight, but i am weak from all the laying around the last few months. i now only have a couple coughing spells a day now, but my brain is not functioning well, i am not feeling sharp and my memory is terrible. oh just remembered i wrecked my bike while riding last week. i dont know how it happened, it was a compltely flat straight paved trail, i remember thinking i am getting close to the edge and i over corrected and did that again and went off the road into loose gravel and down i went. last time i wrecked a bike was maybe 15 years ago and that was off road and it was due to the chain breaking while i was pedaling hard and fast up a steep hill.
i have 20 years IT experience so thinking and attention to detail has been a skill of mine for most of my life and how i make a living, i feel i have lost my edge due to this bout of illness. perhaps it will come back as i continue to improve?
will i continue to improve? does copd come and go throughout the day? does it come and go in spells that last 4 months?
so much about my inability to breath for the last 15 years has been kinda coming back to me and im remembering so many random moments where people say "hey you look like your going to die" etc etc. i always just thought it was allergies or a cold or something, i would ignore it and continue life.
sorry for the wall of text, but i dont know what todo atm and wanted to share as much information as i could come up with.

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Do you attach your cv/cover letter on Ispira?
I'm applying for a UN role. Of course the allocation is completely online through the agency platform (not sure if inspira or something similar anyway)
There is an open question on why are you applying for this job but no place to attach your cv/cover letter
You could add it as "other" in the attachments section, but does it make any sense to do it? Is it viewed negatively if you do? Am I missing something?

It was summer. He needed money to pay for school next year. He decided to get a job. He needed to apply to different places. He first made a resume. He then made a cover letter. He walked around his neighborhood.

It was summer. He needed money to pay for school next year. He decided to get a job. He needed to apply to different places. He first made a resume. He then made a cover letter. He walked around his neighborhood.

It was summer. He needed money to pay for school next year. He decided to get a job. He needed to apply to different places. He first made a resume. He then made a cover letter. He walked around his neighborhood.

It was summer. He needed money to pay for school next year. He decided to get a job. He needed to apply to different places. He first made a resume. He then made a cover letter. He walked around his neighborhood.

It was summer. He needed money to pay for school next year. He decided to get a job. He needed to apply to different places. He first made a resume. He then made a cover letter. He walked around his neighborhood.

It was summer. He needed money to pay for school next year. He decided to get a job. He needed to apply to different places. He first made a resume. He then made a cover letter. He walked around his neighborhood.

It was summer. He needed money to pay for school next year. He decided to get a job. He needed to apply to different places. He first made a resume. He then made a cover letter. He walked around his neighborhood.

It was summer. He needed money to pay for school next year. He decided to get a job. He needed to apply to different places. He first made a resume. He then made a cover letter. He walked around his neighborhood.

It was summer. He needed money to pay for school next year. He decided to get a job. He needed to apply to different places. He first made a resume. He then made a cover letter. He walked around his neighborhood.

Bro I swear all shipping/mailing company's act fraudulent and just deny claims for no damn reason even when all the proof they need to approve a claim is right in front of them damn face.
I sold a Pokemon card on ebay February 11th and packaged the card up and shipped it out the same day using USPS ground advantage. The card ended up making it to the buyers state and his local distribution center but then ended up getting lost and tracking never updated again. Fast forward buyer clearly did not reach the card so I refunded him like I should have. After I refund the buyer I opened a missing mail search and filed a lost package claim to at least get some of the cost back. Im supposed to be covered $100 for shipping USPS ground advantage but for whatever reason USPS wants to play games and even with all my information and clear evidence of receipts and shipping cost they want to be stupid and deny my claim. At this point I have not clue why my claim has been denied twich now. In one of my attached photos you can see USPS literally send me a letter in the mail on March 1st telling me "based on our investigation, your claim has been approved but has been paid at a lesser amount then requested". Then I wait and wait for my payment and April 1st comes alone and I then receive another letter in the mail from USPS now telling me "based on our investigation, your claim has been denied".
I have tried calling USPS accounting services and talk with someone to ask them if they can tell me more about why I was approved but a month later they revierse my claim to be denied. No one was able to explain to me why I was denied because based on my claim and the photos I uploaded it should be okay for evidence.
Idk maybe I am missing someone here but can someone anyoneeee with is experienced with ebay or USPS claims look at my screenshots and tell me if they see something I am doing wrong or know what I can do to recoup some of my money cuz I have no clue at this point and I'm only able to dispute my claim one last time and the time is running out for me to dispute it one last time.
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