the felipe lopez fund

dear friends, your help is desperately needed. a very special friend of mine named felipe lopez was recently diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. the general condition is called agoraphobia, but felipe's specific strain is actually more precisely known as "living-with-your-parents-because-you-blew-your-apartment-money-on- a-2-month-surfing-trip-itis." the brutality of this condition is devastating, as you can see below.

(felipe, vibrant, healthy, and mind-bogglingly sexy before the onset of his tragic illness)

(felipe, now a shell of his former self, in desperate need of immediate medical intervention)

friends, the only cure for this condition is immediate invasive surgery. there are no other options. felipe must be surgically removed from his parents' home and transplanted into a new apartment before it's too late. this procedure is extremely risky, but if it isn't performed soon, felipe will never recover.

this is where you come in. this felipectomy will be performed in new york city and will be extremely expensive, at least $2500 a month. felipe, for reasons that caused his current condition, simply cannot afford this procedure. don't let this self-inflicted poverty rob the world of such a special young man. i'm not asking you to give what you don't have; i'm just asking you to spare what you can.

don't let this brilliantly shining star of a life get snuffed out by a curable illness. do what you can. do it for felipe.