Appeal for help

Normally, I am not one to put names in the Journal unless permission is given, or there's an emergency or something.

I am going to use a friend's name, because she doesn't have a journal and she is in need.

The other names in question have been omitted, as they are not relevant. If you know her, you know who the other people are, too.

Colleen Walker/Evenson is a friend of mine. We met through the Brad Parties and she is someone that I always think of as a friend.

Here's the problem:
Colleen was married to (A). When she broke up with (A) and moved in with (B), it was somewhat abrupt, and the split was strange to a lot of people. Then she had the "Miracle Child" with (B), and they began a life together. Many people who didn't know them well assumed that they were married but they never were. So, Colleen ended one relationship, and assumed that there would be the "split" of friends that so often happens. Then she came to understand that (B) was somewhat threatened by the friends that she "kept." (I appear to have been exempt from that statement, but I didn't know that and didn't really spend as much time with Colleen as I might have otherwise.) Colleen threw herself into (B)'s hobbies and circles of friends.

Then (B) broke up with her to take up with (Y), who had been hanging around a lot. Interestingly enough, Colleen and (B) who have both participated in poly relationships in the past had stated that they would be monogamous together. Until, of course, they weren't.
(Aw, Bulwinkle, That trick NEVER works...)


SO she is moving from a nice house in St. Charles to a tiny apartment in the River Des Peres area with her two year old, and three cats. She is doing this functionally alone because she thinks she has no friends left. Remember, any of you who know her know that she finds it crushingly difficult to ask for help. I ask you on her behalf.

Here is what I think she needs:
-Reconnection. If you have ever believed that she is/was your friend, reach out to her! Feel free to get her contact info from me!

-New friends. Just because you haven't been her friend before doesn't mean you can't be her friend NOW! Get to know her, she's fascinating.

-Help with the move. Even if it's just to provide child supervision. A two year old under foot makes moving that much more difficult.

-A home for two of her cats. She has three cats, and two of them are a brother-sister littermate pair. These cats are the first litter of *MY* cat, the Kitty Crack Ho herself. They are beautiful grey longhairs, almost certainly more than 50% Maine Coon. They are very sweet and very shy. She does not wish to separate them, but doesn't think it will be fair to the cats to put three of them in such a small apartment. (I agree.) I would take them if I could, but between the landlady's (justifiably) strict "1 cat only" rule, and the cramped quarters here... nope.

-Child care, particularly in her area. Even information leading to child care would be valuable. She's moving to an area with which she is unfamiliar.

Let the "season" filter into your heart and reach out to someone who needs you!