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Hello, I'm Allison Raskin. I'm a writer, mental health advocate and knee dislocator.

I'm Gabby Dunn. I'm a writer, bicon, bisexual, icon, wink and very interested in this story.

Okay, Allison Raskin. Do you want to start at the beginning?

I guess the beginning takes us back November when my fiance abandoned me. I decided I needed

to go home to New York to heal and grieve, so I did that. I got there, surprisingly. I

don't think we talked enough about how amazing it is. I got myself on an airplane three

days later. I remember standing in the airport being like, how did I do this? Then I was

home. I had a rough few months, but I was surrounded by my family and two dogs and I was

healing. I was getting ready. I was actually supposed to come back to LA on March 6. I had

my flight booked and everything. Then it turned out that I got offered to do this YouTube

video. That's going to be cool and fun. My manager was like, why don't you come back

the week earlier so that you can do it. I was like, cool, cool. I'll change everything.

I'll completely rearrange my schedule so that I fly home on February 27 instead. I've

been dreading returning to LA just because they changed the ESA regulations for emotional

support animals where you can't have an emotional support animal anymore on an airplane.

I had to have sugar have a carrier for the first time instead of first sitting on my

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