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Raneen, @a00h2, is my friend. She is trapped in Gaza, Palestine, with her family. She lost everything in the bombings and is now in poverty and homelessness. Her whole family, her baby, her husband, her husband's mother, are in mortal danger from the bombings. And her 1-year-old baby is in a respirator; he has very dangerous lung cancer. She needs to pay $5,200 more before the 1st of July to get the family out of Gaza, so the baby can receive proper treatment and her other loved ones can be safe. My friend doesn't have that money. She can't help them alone. Please, I beg of you, don't just reblog. Donate, whatever you can. $40, $20, $10, $5, whatever you can, it will all be useful. Thank you so much.

Her account is vetted by @90-ghost here, by @gazavetters (#576) , and by @bilal-salah0. This Chuffed fundraiser goes directly to her; for transparency, you can dm @a00h2 if you want to confirm it.

PLEASE, HELP MY FRIENDS' BABY AND HER FAMILY LIVE!! THIS IS THE FINAL EFFORT!!

$4,500/$11,300

he could never quite put his finger on it, the same way a line of poetry sometimes flees him for days until he catches it on a napkin in some cheap diner in downtown philadelphia; could never quite name what made him so uneasy about neil looking at him as if he was a sparrow seconds from flying away.

"why ya looking at me like that?"

"what?"

"you're staring."

neil shrugged, his eyes still on todd. "just wanna remember this, is all."

todd huffed, not more than half a laugh. "i'll be here."

and neil would kiss him but not answer.

now, months later, with all the crying and shouting long behind them; desperation having turned into some stale kind of resignation, he understands that neil will be the one to leave.

not now, not tomorrow (he's made dinner reservations for next thursday), but eventually, the way you always know winter will come even when bringing your parka down to the basement in june.

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