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\"missdiorcherie\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have been a rover<\/em>
\n\u00a0I have walk<\/em>ed alone
\nHiked a hundred highways
\nNever found a home
\nStill in all I\u2019m happy
\nThe reason is you see
\nonce in a while, along the way
\nLife\u2019s been good to me..<\/em><\/p>\n

I still find it difficult to believe it\u2019s been five years since I walked up my first gangway; terrified and exhilarated and having no idea whatsoever what to expect. I remember the faces from that time, but not the names \u2013 save for a very small handful, the names are long gone, and the people who helped train me are long since shore-side. Silv said to me once that coming to ships has made me the woman she always saw I would become, but that I never saw in myself; perhaps that\u2019s true. It\u2019s definitely changed me, I like to think those changes have been for the better \u2013 though there are a few cases where I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n

But I have things now I never thought I would have. I have a job I love, that I\u2019m good at, I have the possibility of opportunities for other jobs (the new casting company is auditioning in New York in two seasons, and this time I have the money), and should I choose to stay where I am; there are improvements on the horizon that I\u2019m actually excited about. The books are doing well, I\u2019m writing fiction again, I\u2019m reading again, I\u2019m sleeping at night (something which, during my time on the flagship was becoming scarce \u2013 I didn\u2019t so much sleep there as just pass out). And I\u2019m not in life alone anymore, and I\u2019m finding out just how huge a difference it makes when you\u2019re facing everything the world throws at you with someone\u2019s hand in yours. Even gypsies don\u2019t feel so lonely if they\u2019re not the only drivers in the caravan.<\/p>\n

Amras and I often sit and watch the news while we have dinner down in the crew mess, and the state of the world makes me want to scream and weep and argue; because I don\u2019t understand it, I will never understand it. I don\u2019t think the day will come when I ever completely accept<\/em> it\u2026but deep down, I feel perhaps dangerously isolated from it, because in my little tiny corner of the world? There is love, and contentment and something that almost resembles a very dear kind of prosperity.<\/p>\n

And maybe that will be enough one day, maybe if enough of us little tiny insignificant people get it right\u2026the bigger picture will follow suit.<\/p>\n

What I do know for certain? I may still be a rover, but I don\u2019t walk alone\u2026and right now? Life is being very very<\/em> good to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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