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"Yesterday started out being a rotten day. So I left work and I cried all the way home and I got on Facebook and whined to my friends and I posted here about the fact that I may be losing my job. And then I sat on the couch and stared at the wall and felt a little sorry for myself for being a single mom who may be an unemployed single mom. I just plain needed to get through it and over it. My friends Facebooked me and called me - just like I knew they would, offering their support, offering a shoulder, offering to help any way they could. Neighbors stopped by. Hugs were given. Drinks were poured. Eventually, I settled back onto the couch, put in a Dwayne Johnson movie and you know...it helped. All of it helped. Life goes on. My friends will all still be here, somehow this will work out, and Dwayne Johnson will still make movies wearing tee-shirts two sizes too small. And then I checked in on the blog this morning and saw the outpouring from all of you and promptly became a big, blubbering mess all over again. It would be easy to say that you people don&amp;#039;t know me and you&amp;#039;re nice to me, but the truth is you know me very well. I tell you guys stuff that I would never bother my casual friends and neighbors with. I pour my heart and my emotions out here all the time and I do it for one reason: because I know that it&amp;#039;s all safe with you. You all listen, and advise, and support and hold me up on a regular basis. I am so very blessed to know you&amp;#039;ve got my back. You matter to me, all of you. Thank you so much. I&amp;#039;m reminded of a great line from the movie &amp;quot;The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel&amp;quot; (which I highly recommend!): &amp;quot;Everything will all be all right in the end, so if it is not all right, it is not yet the end.&amp;quot; My journey is still moving forward, just maybe diverging onto an unexplored path.  And how wonderful to be shown, again, that I&amp;#039;m not walking it alone.       [Follow Ellie on Twitter and Facebook] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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