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The antidote to all the fear and division...is community connection.

To have the future we want, we need to create more of what we need. And in order to know what we need, we have to show up in our communities. We need to listen to our neighbors..The privilege of what we do is that we get to go into these communities and see neighbors selflessly helping neighbors, people working to better the lives of strangers. No one asks who you voted for before they get to work solving problems

Chapter Five: Date Yourself, Make It Weird

–Excellent advice!

I decided to live life for me. I would do the things I dreamt of doing, I would laugh with my whole being, I would find joy in the things worth seeing, I would spend moments in interesting places and find spaces filled with light, and I would teach my heart it's always best to be a little warmer.

I know sometimes it feels like
you are made of glass,
like the smallest change
or challenge can feel crushing,
all-consuming, unimaginable.

But glass is also made from lightning,
and lightning brightens the entire sky.

Just like you.

The world is meant
for building each other
into castles, for holding
each other in times of
duress and struggle.

We are not meant to
burn each other to the
ground.

If we cannot support
each other in the times
we need to come together,
we will be left in ashes.

Although she was thankful that Ghislaine Maxwell, whom she regarded as ‘more evil than Epstein’, was convicted, Giuffre had never felt closure: ‘It’s definitely not over. There are so many more people involved with this. It doesn’t stop with Maxwell.’

"I was one of many girls Prince Andrew had sex with in Jeffrey Epstein’s house. I was paid off to keep quiet years ago by Epstein...to this day I can’t believe how Prince Andrew has never been investigated or held accountable...One day the entire truth will come out...Now is not the time because Andrew seems to be above the law. I promise, the final chapter of this sad saga is far from being written."

It is clear how Epstein played Andrew. The prince was a useful idiot who gave him respectability and access to political leaders and business opportunities. What drew Andrew to Epstein? An opportunity to join the super rich and a lifestyle to which the duke had long aspired, a supply of available women, a chance to make money himself and someone who would bankroll his life as well as settle his ex-wife’s debts.

Ian Halperin in the course of researching his book & documentary on Jeffrey Epstein talked to many people in Andrew’s circle and confirmed Epstein ‘sold Prince Andrew’s most intimate secrets to several notorious foreign intelligence agencies, including Israel’s Mossad, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya which was the national intelligence service of Libya under the rule of Muammar Gaddafi’.

In January 2024, 943 further Epstein court papers were unsealed by the Southern District Court of New York. They mentioned Andrew 67 times, revealed that he spoke to Epstein once a week and included claims from Virginia Giuffre that she had been told to have intercourse with Prince Andrew three times, including during an orgy on Little Saint James.

People fear those who stand up for themselves. The people who fight day in and day out for the rights of the vulnerable. They fear the people who fight the chains. So, continue breaking them.

They took a lot from me. But I won’t let them steal my spirit. I refuse. I refuse to give them that power. Even with the threat of arrest now, that is what they want to do. They want to strip us of our dignity. To remove our capacity for delight. But they cannot win.

They took a lot from me. But I won’t let them steal my spirit. I refuse. I refuse to give them that power. Even with the threat of arrest now, that is what they want to do. They want to strip us of our dignity. To remove our capacity for delight. But they cannot win.

After all this time, my anger at injustice remains sky-high and forceful.

That’s how losses of rights build. They start small. And then soon, the rights are stripped in droves.

I now scratch the surface of my anger and peer beneath the skin of it and find only a well of sadness so deep there seems no way out.

Why did she have to fight so hard for everything? It felt ridiculous.

Sometimes we fight our destiny because of our fears, when what we really need to do is learn how to make destiny work for us.

You will never do enough. There is always more. More missions. More witches in pain. More struggles to resolve. But if you can be the witch you want to be, a witch that changes the world for someone else, in some small way, then it's enough. It's always enough.

Commentators expressed surprise that he [Andrew] should pay off someone he claimed never to have met [Virginia], but pressure had come from his older brother Charles to ‘shut it down’ rather than face a trial that would produce fresh disclosures... ‘The amount of the settlement and the charitable donation, tells me there was significant evidence and leverage over the prince,’ says lawyer Christa Ramey

One of the two accompanying PPOs told the Mail that he [Andrew] stayed in the [Epstein] townhouse in his ‘usual’ guest bedroom on the fourth floor – a revealing comment in itself...Andrew stayed so often he was given his own suite on the third floor called the Britannica Suite.

Corby was the wrong choice, and so I had to do a lot to distract myself from the truth. When you know a thing is wrong, you have to work very hard to stick with it.

Jennifer Arcuri had regularly seen him [Andrew] at the club. ‘He often brought girls there because it was private,’ she said. ‘It was a side everyone knew and they rolled their eyes. That’s Andy. He was quite creepy.’

Jeffrey Epstein’s former ‘mentor’ Steven Hoffenberg, who had masterminded a Ponzi scheme with Epstein for which he but not Epstein had gone to prison, revealed how Epstein would boast that Andrew was his ‘Super Bowl trophy’ – ‘it was his strongest bond, even more than Clinton’s’ – and he planned to sell Andrew’s secrets to Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad.

Epstein had paid a former lap dancer to hire girls – often homeless, runaways, or younger sisters of other strippers – to attend his parties, which were always recorded on camera...there were rooms for sex and girls who looked too young were kept out of sight. Epstein made it clear he wanted to make Andrew happy. I was told to make sure he was looked after...He used royalty, his celebrity, to his advantage.

Growing from struggles, lost friendships, and self-destruction doesn't mean changing who you are. It means learning yourself over, figuring out what makes you the best that you can be.

His voice was getting higher. "Just because you went to Oxford, you think we aren't good enough?" This last sentence began as a statement but had an identity crisis halfway and became a question. I'd said nothing about him not being good enough. Clearly the person who feared he wasn't good enough was Napier. But it's easier to argue with another person than it is to argue with the darker recesses of oneself.

She just wants someone who will make the effort, love all her flaws, support her through it all.

The duchess [Andrew's ex-wife, Fergie] contacted journalists, encouraging them to dig into Virginia Giuffre. The Daily Mail was offered Andrew’s diaries, but that backfired when it only confirmed that he was in New York at the time that Giuffre claimed he had abused her at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse. It was this incident that would allow Giuffre to file her civil lawsuit in the US seeking ‘punitive damages’.