I think many people spent their adolescent years in a fit of turmoil that EoFF guided them successfully through, but like some of you my EoFF story started in young adulthood.

Along with most of the turmoil I've experienced in life thus far.

My family fell apart and came back together higgeldy piggeldy. I took a great adventure and had a greater fall from grace. I fought, I screamed, I cried and flew into a blackness so deep I thought iI'd never find my way out and up.

And through it all EoFF remained the one constant, the one stable shelter for my aching brains and my wounded heart. At times you were all the fixed point of light in the darkness that let me know I wasn't alone, not really, not as long as there was a community who cared for me.

EoFF didn't pull me through as much as it served as an example of the good out in the greater world. I can never really repay that, not really, but I can hope the time I've spent here has helped someone else as well.