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"Families across Chicagoland face growing financial and health insurance challenges. Meanwhile, family support and structure deteriorates, teens face isolation in a busy and digital world, and incidents of risky, self-harming behavior, even suicide among teens, grows. For many of these families, the life-affirming, family-restoring treatment at F.A.I.R is increasingly out of financial reach. In response, F.A.I.Rs clinical and executive team recently formed the F.A.I.R Foundation. It is our mission to garner private and community funding so that no family in need will ever be turned away from treatment for financial reasons."

For the past two years I have become extremely familiar with the recovery process. I have seen how much time, energy, and money a family must put forward in order to see success in the treatment of just one 17-year-old kid. I have seen how much time, effort, and care councilors and volunteers put forward to merely attempt to guide adolescent addicts to sobriety. While this process is anything but easy, it is effective and necessary. I have been fortunate enough to watch a loved one choose the path of sobriety, and continue on that path for what is almost two years. I thank that higher power every single day for this, because I know that not everyone is so lucky to have such a success story, or even have a chance at a success story.Recently, I have heard of a tragedy. An old friend, passed away nearly 4 months ...

Please take the time to share, reblog, like, tweet, Facebook, or scream this URL off rooftops.  I so desperately want to reach my $2000 Fundraiser goal for the Chicago Marathon.  

I am so incredibly blessed to have witnessed my loved one's success in his recovery for what is going on three years. Unfortunately, I know of so many people who were not so lucky.  I do not want ANY teen or family to feel as helpless as I know mine has felt in the past.  Together we can give these kids and families a second chance.  

By clicking the URL you can get more details as to why this cause is so important to me personally, and you can make your donations there as well.

Every dollar helps.  Every "share" helps.  Every "reblog" helps.  Every "tweet" helps.  Whatever you can do is greatly appreciated!!

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“She was dazzling—alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did.” ― Ron Rash, Serena

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“Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.” ― Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader: First Series

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Catedral de #Madrid

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Madrid

©whateverwherevernow

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…you should say it and so should I and every other girl who’s tired of playing their game by their rules. Don’t be too fat, or too thin, or too dark, or too light. Don’t be too sexual or too chaste or too smart or too dumb. Be yourself, but make sure you fit in.

Anna Tagarro, One Tree Hill (via defluxxus)

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There is almost nothing more cowardly

 than not being able to apologize when you've done something wrong. 

Take some responsibility. Grow up.

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These are a few of my favourite things + lanterns

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weird.

After spending so much time as a cynical mess, I met someone, someone who made me so happy, and made me feel so good.  I have learned that it is not impossible for me to feel that kind of connection with someone.  I have learned that it is not impossible for someone to feel so strongly for me.  

I have met and said goodbye to someone.  Due to circumstances beyond my control I had to say goodbye, no matter how much I wish I didn't have to.  I have learned that saying goodbye doesn't just make you sad, it feels weird.  You're used to talking to someone everyday, and now you're not, and they aren't talking to you.  It feels weird.  Will we ever talk again? Will we ever see each other again? I can't say it enough times, it's weird, and I don't know anything about it, because I have never done this before.  

I couldn't stop thinking about him before, and I can't now.   I wonder if he is having a hard time too.  I wonder a lot of things, like when this is going to feel normal.  So what am I feeling? I stopped this because I was hurting, and our ideas of the right decision were to conflicting I couldn't handle it.  But my feelings for him are still here, and strong.  Do I dare suspect "the el word?" is that what it is? I have known I loved a friend after a few weeks, is two months to soon to know about a relationship? Is that why this is feeling so bizarre? I feel like my body is going to break out in a rash just at the thought.  But, fuck, I don't know what I'm thinking.

I am rambling, but this is all that has gone through my mind in two days.  I am looking forward to some BFF and Mommy therapy next week, because I don't really know another way to fix it.

Every day I spend in this stupid, stupid town I will be thinking about what I wish was happening.  Every single day until I'm on my drive home I know I will be thinking about it, and I don't know if 1,000 miles will make that feeling go away, but I really hope it will. 

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“I never explain anything.”