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VERY URGENT PLEASE HELP

WE HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING ELSE! (MOST importantly, If you know anyone who is willing to hire a very healthy, vigorous and hard-working older adult -with two masters degrees, impeccable references and great work history, please let us know. Education includes an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering. *We have been consistent, relentless, in our pursuit of a job or work projects! This has been fruitless, since turning 65 years old. *This may be our last hope; recommended by a friend that we try GoFundMe. * (WE HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING VERY HARD THE LAST 20 YEARS. LOST EVERYTHING when the company we worked for was purchased by another company.) We raised a grandchild, and help as much as possible with others, and still, (gratefully), have our (epileptic) adult- child here at home with us most of the time, whom we help support. Friends will tell you and so will acquaintances and local small businesses that we always work hard to promote others. We have always tried to pay it forward. We have absolutely nothing left. * Return CALLS FOR JOBS ARE NOT coming anymore. *Our 60- HOURS/ week -putting in job applications- every week -for the last 43 months, are coming back cold. WE WANT TO WORK! We cannot be homeless with a son with severe epilepsy. *We are resourceful/ tenacious, but have been unable to sell our small townhouse, thus far. We will keep trying, and downsize even further, gladly. On the other hand,if we cannot sell it and if nobody else will take us to rent or to purchase something...... *******We need to hang on to our two bedroom townhouse, if at all possible-And my goal here is to pay it off, since we have been unable to sell it, and prospects for renting or purchasing something even smaller have been zero. *If we could recoup even a little bit of the income that we lost- with these donations, and use our social security to pay the balance of necessary expenses, we could survive, and not become homeless. ****Turning 70, time is up. Starting over like teenagers, with no savings left due to no fault of our own. We lived the past 3 1/2 years on the last year's salary that we earned. We have sold many of our personal belongings, and are selling more, and willing to sell everything. (We have only had one used -car in the family for 12 years). Again, we are very grateful, but cannot become homeless, with our child with seizure- disorder. *Our dream is to pay this house off, and use our newly filed Social Security to keep us afloat in all other ways, while continuing to look and apply for work, more than full-time everyday. We are careful and frugal. This is very humbling, and certainly without paying off this house, somehow, and eventually selling it to downsize even further, we will be homeless within a few months. We could not have foreseen this. We even had a backup plan- a plan B for retirement- which was a very small business, which went under when manufacturers removed all of the distributors, such as ourselves, and began to sell only directly. A very *small contribution from *many people will save us. And of course we will continue to look for work projects. Age discrimination is a very real thing. *I dearly would love to do this for my husband for his upcoming 70th birthday. We deeply appreciate any and all help. There is no other way.We are so sorry to impose upon you and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

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Cynthia Funegard
Organiser
Saint Charles, IL

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