Your weren't technically in therapy with him and haven't even seen him in several years. It isn't really that he has abandoned you; he's just recommending that you find a permanent therapist rather than relying on him, who is apparently a ways away (and you aren't even sure where he is). You also have a new therapist now, so this isn't really about an old therapist leaving you high and dry. This sounds like you are just feeling a loss from an old T that was important to you. He's right in saying you need to work through this with a T in your area, your current T. It isn't something the old T can probably help you with from that great a distance in time and place. You feel abandoned, but it doesn't sound like he technically, professionally, abandoned you at all.