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The economy is f.o.o.ked, doesn’t make you more or less of a man than the next guy. We’ve all had our problems, it’s just unfortunate you had yours before this economic problem. (the drinking) When you say your own children don’t want you, do they live with you?

No, it’s just me, myself, and I. I live by myself, but it looks like I’m going to have to move back in with my parents for a while, and not for the first time. Been divorced twenty something years. My son lives about seven hundred miles away and is doing very well, but as I was never there for him while he was growing up, I won’t bother him with this. Besides, he knows. My daughter still lives with her mom. Anyway, I’ve never been able to take care of myself very well, because of the drinking no doubt. I finally get a job I like and that I’m fairly good at and after five years, my longest time at one place ever, they eliminate my job. I’m in my early fifties. I know that the loss of this job was through no fault of my own, but everything else, everything that makes my situation so pathetic and helpless, is my fault, and I feel worthless at fifty-three. By now I’m sure you can imagine what kind of employement record I’ve got, but I still feel like what a waste! That’s why I don’t know what to do.