The Aston Villa Fanzine

New Category => Issue 180 - February 2013 => Topic started by: martin@ on December 07, 2019, 09:56:48 PM

Title: APPEAL URGENT HUMANITARIAN AID REQUIRED
Post by: martin@ on December 07, 2019, 09:56:48 PM
Meet Carson. He’s an ordinary man, just like you and I. A hairdresser, attempting to eke out a living in this harsh economic climate. He seeks nothing more than to be able to live his life in the manner to which he has become accustomed. To do this he was previously able to take a small amount each year from his business, but now even that meagre source of funds has all but dried up. Even worse, his family, the one source of comfort in troubled times, has turned on him.

Caron has done his best to make ends meet. He has sold the family heirlooms, getting rid of mementoes of more successful days gone by. It was, as he admitted, “heartbreaking” to watch these being carted off but the need to feed his loved ones was far more important than to relive such happier occasions and so it was goodbye to such souvenirs as the Leyland Daf cup and the Sports Argus Arctic Trophy. Even the NEC Atarti Six a Side Cup had to go.

Still this wasn’t enough. Carson then tried to sell the assets of his crumbling business. Sadly, there were no buyers. Carson has even taken to selling the clothes from off his back, such as t