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Ahoy, mates...many o' ye know us (Capt. john Swallow & QM Seika Hellbound) - and many o' ye know our continuing mission to educate, promote history & culture, raise awareness and support our communities. We manage this as best we're able and with help from a few close crewmates...but, alas, this past year has blown many a hole in our rigging and a few in the ship! A lack o' Rum is the very least o' our problems.
This campaign is painful to ask...embarassing, even; but ask we must - desperate times.
Without too many o' the gory details, a short synopsis:
Some shady blaggards tried to steal our home out from under us - which cost us a considerable sum to counterattack - an additional $27,000 added to our (new) mortgage (and continuing at severe interest). A business we had floundered due to a greedy landlord demanding double the rent after merely a year and a subsequent retail location "not being at all as advertised" in terms o' paying traffic. In one o' the coldest weeks o' the winter, the furnace broke down and cost an extensive emergency repair. All our utility bills have compunded & fallen behind.
To make matters worse, our travel documents need renewing and the cost o' those has doubled since originally acquiring them - plus an extra charge to get them in a timely fashion.
We've neither of us much in the way o' family to assist us (the Captain's are all largely expired...one 94 year old codger with progressing Alzheimer's, being robbed blind by his "minders") - and so, we ask ye, humbly, can ye lend a hand?
We have led many a successful campaign to assist others, giving back in ways both financial, volunteering time & energy, promoting causes and helping raise funds & volunteers for the same - from the Great Lakes to the Gulf o' Mexico.
We ask now for a little in return...if 500 people gave $10 ea., we'd reach our goal in no time.
We've not much to give ye back but our grateful thanks...and the fact that we'll help ye if ever yer in need, however we're able.
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