10/ I haven't talked much about funding beyond saying I had savings. It was gone. I had to choose again to continue art or try to join the adults again in office jobs and draw on the side. I chose art and tried to get as far as I could. But another hit came.

My tarot deck sales stopped dramatically. I would later find out that the main forum they had been shared on had closed down. And then I was in a rather dire situation. That was my source of income and it fell out from under me. I scrambled to get things together somehow.

I was honestly looking at having to move back to that small town I had managed to get away from or become quasi homeless.