Hello, my friends and family. This is really hard for me to do, but I feel it’s the only option for me and I need to try as hard as I can to execute this. As some of you know one of my best friends I’ve ever had passed away last year Catelynn Jade Anderson Her celebration of life is in 10 days, and my heart is weeping along with my eyes because I don’t think can’t make it. I NEED to be there.

This beautiful talented soul will always be remembered, and because we have been close though very insane, crazy, dark, light, and heartbreaking events in such a short amount of time - missing this opportunity to really have some type of closure and goodbye is not on my agenda. I can’t even fathom it. I can barely complete writing this, I am begging for any type of help. I can work for the money, I just can’t miss this.

I need to buy a round trip plane ticket from Durango to Medford Oregon. Please if anybody can help me I’ll do ANYTHING to earn some cash for this. Most plane tickets for this trip look to be from around 300-450$. I am in need of plane tickets but I will also need transportation and sleeping arrangements for 2 nights. I can figure out the small things but these tickets are what is holding me in place.

I really hope that this isn’t out of line to ask for - I just have no other option, if I don’t try then I won’t make it. My heart will be crushed onto the ground by the spiked boot from the OG SpongeBob movie if I don’t try, and I’ll regret it literally for the rest of my life - it’s already eating me up that I didn't try to ask for help with this sooner.

I’m not displaying my emotions for sympathy, I’m just trying to explain how much this actually means to me. I’ve had 5 friends and 1 close family member pass away in the span of 6 years. To comprehend and look back on the last 6 years is extremely hard because grief does not have an antidote. The relief I get from the grief and confusion comes after I’ve had the chance to celebrate their life in some way, with the people who loved and cared for them the most. Although I’ve had to time “work through this”, the only way for me to truly say goodbye and honor her is to visit the place she loved and thrived. Doing that alongside her family and friends to remember the beautiful achievements, to look at photos and videos, and speak on the memories we have all made with her is something my heart longs to do.

Thank you for reading this far, it means the world to me. I would never ask for money from my loved ones, friends, or the internet for ANYTHING - unless it had this much importance and meaning to me. My heart goes out to catelynns family, she IS a literal diamond in the rough. Shine on to all my crazy diamonds who are now in the sky

-Luna Lazare