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[In an effort to use FB more for socializing and my blog more for my writings on my life, I am copying old content from there to here with the title prefix "Archive:". This was originally posted to FB on 2 August 2017. It provides a good backdrop for the posts that follow, as I moved from bad to worse and then better.] Today is my 2nd SFiversary. This is my retrospective. Although I don't broadcast a lot about myself on FB these days, I've been thinking about writing this post for a while. Each draft has degenerated the same way: into a thicket of reasons and stories of my difficulties. Because these have been two very, very hard years for me. Don't get me wrong, I live a life of extreme privilege, and I've felt overwhelmed with gratitude at times. But wow, it's been a doozy. And if that's representative of my experience, then maybe I should write about it as such. So here goes. An invisible reason for the difficulty has been adjusting to a new city. I had not done this before, not cou

[ In an effort to use FB more for socializing and my blog more for my writings on my life, I am copying old content from there to here with the title prefix "Archive:". This was originally posted to FB on 2 August 2017. It provides a good backdrop for the posts that follow, as I moved from bad to worse and then better. ] Today is my 2nd SFiversary. This is my retrospective. Although I don't broadcast a lot about myself on FB these days, I've been thinking about writing this post for a while. Each draft has degenerated the same way: into a thicket of reasons and stories of my difficulties. Beca

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