Ruins of My House: Complete Fire Destruction

What was left of my home, burned to the ground

Disasters That Tore Apart My Life

I lost my one and only true love, my husband, to cancer in January of 1999. The diagnosis was made less than one month before his horribly painful death. After he died, I was still teaching full time, alone, and crying as I drove to and from work each day. Within six months of his death, our partner in business (we had built a family import business over eleven long years of work and finally that last year, the year of my husband's death, we made a small profit) stole all the money in the account and I was left with nothing to show for all our hard work. Then, while I was at work during the day, burglars broke into my home seven times, vandalising and stealing things. Each time the police took a report, but did no investigation. All I could do was deal with the pain and worry that if I were to be at the house the next time, I might be killed. It terrified me to even go to my own home. The hard luck did not end: a year and a half ago, the home was burned to the ground, also while I was at work, in a very suspicious fire. Nothing was left, and there was no insurance. Insurance had been impossible to get since the home was in the country, in an area no insurers would insure. So I lost the quarter of a million in income that had been spent in building it. After the fire, the thefts continued. Thieves stole all the solar panels and solar system parts that had been installed, and a 40 foot long container building as well. The thieves were incredibly bold in their actions. I became even more afraid than ever, and there was nothing left. All my furnishings, all my family things were lost. So I decided I had to sell the land. I had to sell it for half its true value, in a distress situation. After that, I invested the money in the stock market and we all know what has happened to that this year. Now I have lost all the money and have no income, since I quit teaching when I sold the land. My life has been a nightmare for these years since my husband died. He was all I had.. I have no children and no family to help me. I look to the kindness of strangers now to help me. I am lost out here and now at the age of 63. it is more diffifult to find employment; I am both too old and too over-qualified for most jobs. I have tried for the past year to get a job, with no success. I have applied for all sorts of jobs but heard nothing back.
Because of my losses, I am living with a friend, who is feeding and clothing me. I have lost everything I had accumulated over 35 years of working and saving.

Thanks for reading of my terrible situation. Hope you will help me, it will not cost you much. All of you have my word that when enough help comes to me, then I will shut down this blog.. my intention is not to continue receiving help past the point of enough to survive the remainder of the year, or until I land a job.
May your life be filled with better fortune than mine has been.. Please help with a five dollar donation to help me regain a home, by using the Donate button below.
JO