i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
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after two other people vaporized, somebody on freecycle finally came through & picked up the boxes! hooray! and she had the most interesting story: she's an unemployed tech person who got a 30-day notice on the place she was renting because it had to be vacated for re-construction. she sent a post out to freecycle looking for a housesitting job and/or storage for her, her 10-year-old son, and her cat. in response, she got a message from an elderly gentleman running an international esl hostel in ne portland whose wife died. apparently without a "house mother" students can't be placed there, so in exchange for cooking and light housekeeping, she gets room & board. he even has a grandson the same age as her son and they get along pretty well. amazing, and a little freaky, how this all worked out.