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Larsie's life episode 1

Hi, I'm Larsie. I'm 35 years old and live in Montreal and am married to Teddy, who is 43 and lives in Tucson, Arizona. Teddy and I are planning on eventually having a communal house and traveling with our friends including Brian from Lexington, Michigan, and my friends Mathieu and Maggie from Montreal, and some of Teddy's friends and maybe some of Mathieu's friends. 


My husband Teddy (whom I married in the United States, and it's too complicated to get a green card on our situation) wants to come up here to Canada and I plan to sponsor him but first I need an income and a place to live that he can come to. Which I'll only be able to get after I'm finished school in 6 months and get a job. Right now where I live is a place just for women so he can't come here... and I'd rent a room in someone's house if I had to that we could both live in but I'd rather not... it'd be farther from school and more expensive than the subsidized place I live at now. So I have to wait, tho me and my friend Maggie (who lives in the same building as me) who might end up sharing a place with us might be able to get a place sooner, Chez Doris (an organization in Montreal for women) might be able to help us find something. 


I hope to write more too on this site but I'm at the library right now, when I get paid in February I'll get my own internet cuz the building I'm at is no longer supplying free internet to the women living there. 

After I'm done school I hope to get a job involving writing or involving helping people with mental health issues. The guy at the school says he can get the government to pay for further courses I might need for the latter (like the PAB course-- a PAB is an orderly in a medical facility including mental health facilities in Quebec) or find me a loan/bursary to be able to take the special care counseling course or a psychology course, so that's good. 

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