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Moving on, yet again.

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The only thing harder than finding a decent place while working a minimum wage job, is finding a place that'll take pets. For the third time in four years, I have to find a new place to rent. Unlike the two previous times, this time I am not moving out by choice but because my landlord has terminal cancer and she needs us to get out, so she can sell the place before she passes on. Watching cancer ravage such an amazing lady has been heart-wrenching. When I see her now it feels like I'm looking at a ghost, she is so frail and pale. When I talk to her she says she just wants to die. Her family is devastated and all she wants to do is sleep and smoke cigarettes and have no more pain. For those who don't know, my landlord basically saved my life last time I had to look for a place and it was through word of mouth at work (Thank you, Kirsten Dressler!) that I was even able to find this place. I've been so happy living in my little basement apartment. Life at home h