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You don't go looking for an answer. The answer finds you. That may take years or decades, even. Just tough it out until then.

The problem with that is that it finds you (if ever) too late to be of any use.

Not the OP but in a similar situation.

Once you find the answer, you realize there was never any use to any of it.

There was never any use to it or you're not interested in using the answer?