08/11/2022
My time in Philadelphia is coming to an end and it’s time to get this store closed! Everything is 30-70% off and buy two get one free with code: HOMECOMING!!!
This will be my THIRD and hopefully final move since 2020 (at least for a long time). After a rat-infested slumlord apartment and a gorgeous home with a massive and eternal flooding problem, I am ready to leave Philadelphia and go back home to NYC. My partner Gabby and I were forced to leave the city during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic after our roommate left and we could not afford any apartment on our own. My partner's career as an artist was newly budding and we had only been living together at that point for three months.
As hard as these last few years have been, and they have been challenging beyond belief.. I can look back with a lot of pride in the growth I have seen in myself, my partner, and our relationship. I finished school. I started a business. I bought a car. I expanded my skills and pushed myself to get up and try again in the face of many failures. I advocated for myself in the medical system and got a step further in figuring out my chronic illnesses. Gabby and I have both explored transitioning. We got engaged. We have now been living together for almost three years! My scarcity mindset has been challenged repeatedly as I have learned how to live on so very little, and still somehow find myself alive and still going.
I am leaving Philadelphia broker than ever, definitely traumatized, and very sad. My partner and I are scarred, nervous to hope, yet finding hope is all we have left. Hope for new opportunities, reconnection with community, security, safety, stability, and maybe even a wedding one day….