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My lifelong search for a home, family, and love is coming to an end. I don't have one family but many - here in Imperial Beach - those whom I meet at the Senior Center, the I. B. Women's Club, the staff and volunteers at the Tijuana Estuary, the staff at my apartment at Mariner's Point and those I meet in casual encounters in the Classic Beach Town of Imperial Beach. In San Diego County I am blessed by being a member of the Walkabout Group and members of the Solana Beach Writer's Group who have helped me in critiquing this story. I remember fondly those I worked with at the San Diego County Public Health Department and the Area Agency on Aging.Among the families a little further away are those friendly Desert Rats and friends that I meet in Shoshone, Death Valley, and the Coachella Valley. Another family belongs to my American Desert Magazine and Desert Index days while living in Desert Hot Springs. Another is made up of the many I have met as a result of my biography of Father Crowley, both in the U.S. and in Ireland. The people I have met in Lone Pine and the eastern sierra hold a special place in my heart. I still have contact with trinity college friends, a few from my Maracaibo, Venezuela days, those I met at Dayton when I taught Health for Missionaries the Diaspora of Boulder, Colorado and the San Luis Valley. The Medical Mission Sisters are also part of my extended family. I find special love for all my Sisters at Heart in the Motherless Daughters group who have helped me in so many ways to learn how to grieve.