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I was coming home from the gym today when I found a message on my phone. A message that when I first heard it actually made tears appear. Tears of happiness.

My US Green Card application has failed, for reasons that I am not going into here and I have been left a little directionless by this piece of bad news. I can't tell you how much I want to move back to San Fran, and how much I miss my friends there. Its not a perfect place by any stretch of the imagination, but its the place I have felt most at home.

So suddenly, out of a clear blue sky, this message comes in from my friends there and rather than making me feel sad about the failed green card, it galvanises me to figuring out how to get back where I feel I belong.

I am not sure how I am going to manage it, but I am feeling Mary Tyler Moore† about it. I'm going to make it after all.

The irony of this arriving on the day I used "Hope" as my word of the week is not lost on me.

Thank you Jerry, hearing from all of you is exactly what I needed. 

†Not the Minneapolis part. No offence to the fine people of Minnesota

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Hope n

1.    the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.
2.    a particular instance of this feeling: the hope of winning.
3.    grounds for this feeling in a particular instance: There is little or no hope of his recovery.
4.    a person or thing in which expectations are centered: The medicine was her last hope.
5.    something that is hoped for: Her forgiveness is my constant hope.–verb (used with object)
6.    to look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence.
7.    to believe, desire, or trust: I hope that my work will be satisfactory.–verb (used without object)
8.    to feel that something desired may happen: We hope for an early spring.
9.    Archaic. to place trust; rely (usually fol. by in).—Idiom
10.    hope against hope, to continue to hope, although the outlook does not warrant it: We are hoping against hope for a change in her condition.

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