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Oct 9, 2022Liked by Christopher Mooney

I can’t thank you enough for your wonderful writing. Subscribing to Hexagon is one of the wisest decisions I’ve made this year.

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This is a moving piece.

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Oct 9, 2022Liked by Christopher Mooney

Wow very very moving - thanks for your story and awareness and for being Who you are :) much much love your way - and blessings

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Nice work, as always! Terrific writing, poignant and compassionate. Thanks. Coincidentally, a dear friend who passed away recently, bequeathed me a collection of Cioran's work. I'm just reading The Temptation to Exist....

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Jan 14Liked by Christopher Mooney

Such a wonderful post... thank-you

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Jul 18, 2023Liked by Christopher Mooney

Thinking of your cashmere sweater! I had my cashmere sweater fixed from a moth hole at a tailor in the 10th while I was spending time with my friend’s father last October. He likes to wander around and has some cognitive things going on from age so I spent some weeks wandering around and around this area with him. I had hit my head and had post-concussion syndrome though not as bad as Ravel in your other story. We were quite a pair. If he got lost and I got lost we would have been in some trouble but luckily at least one of us always remembered how to find the way home.

The best thing to keep us busy was to think of something to fix. Everything I had on me could be fixed in the 10th--watches, sweaters, shoes. I think I could spend the rest of my life there. Maybe we saw Fred somewhere. I will probably go back at some point, and bring some more things, and have them all fixed. I have so many broken watches! I would love to bring a suitcase of broken things to Paris since it is not so easy to fix broken things here in the USA. If I do, I will keep an eye out for Fred.

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Oct 12, 2022Liked by Christopher Mooney

Wonderful stuff! I've fancied a street-level apartment ever since the video for "Waiting on a Friend" appeared in 1981. Those encounters on doorsteps looked so enchanting. But this story takes it to a completely different place. Thanks, Chris.

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Oct 10, 2022Liked by Christopher Mooney

Wow, thank you for sharing, chris

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Great stuff Chris. I hope all is well

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Oct 9, 2022Liked by Christopher Mooney

Your writing captures the mood and complexity(and simplicity of this type of relationship) with a schizophrenic / un-housed person. Having also helped a young man-with sleeping bag,warm clothes,food,money-odd jobs, and the monotonous regularity of him showing up was such a burden in the end.The grinding cycle of his ups and downs.It's not great admission, but when the relationship ended, I was so relieved because it took up so much space in my head and day to day life.

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Dear friend, your capacity to care for others and remain constant in the face of very, very discouraging odds is a rare and truly admirable thing. I’ve met ‘Fred’ at your place several times and have also felt uncomfortable confronting his self-aflicted state of misery, which he nevertheless seems not to see as such. This piece makes all of us question our relationship to those living on the edge. « Every Night & Every Morn, Some to Misery are Born »

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