my best life 07.03.17.245A

I had created a successful marketing business in
Cleveland and felt that I could duplicate that same success
anywhere we moved to.
That was my first mistake.
It took about a year to get all the details worked out and
bring closure to our life in Cleveland while laying all the
groundwork for our new life waiting for all of us on the
west coast.
Almost a year to the day from when we took our vacation
we finally arrived in California leaving our old lives
behind us. Moving into our new home felt surreal, it was
so beautiful and was three times the size of what we were
used to. We were decorating it in our minds as we walked
through it. There were so many rooms, some remained
empty because we didn’t have enough furniture to fill
them all. I can remember fantasizing about all the antique
pieces mixed with modern ones to create the eclectic
theme we both wanted. The plan was to begin filling the
house room by room over the course of the next year.
Three months later my business began to struggle and all
the emotionally based reasons to move to California
began to sour. My business suffered one set-back after
another and without the financial capital to wade through
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