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FINANCIAL SICKNESS

The boat has holes in the haul, and water is surging in without the ability to stop it—no life
jackets for the majority of people. The water is turbulent, deep, dark, cold, and unforgiving.
Sickness is amongst those on the vessel. This very scenario is a financial reality for most in
society in this turbulent time of COVID-19. Economic Sickness has been a part of most people's
situations long before COVID-19 arrived on the shores of the United States.

Financial instability is due to a poor relationship with money and a lack of respect for its value
or the value of human time. Without the constant cultivation of the relationship-building in the

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