HT5312 Expired Rescue E-mail; Forgotten Security Answer = No Help.  Apple failed me after 27 years

I had an old Apple ID that I used to set up a newer iPhone.
Unfortunately the Rescue e-mail I had was closed when I moved from one place to the next a couple of years ago.
I never re-set it. (That's my fault.)
I also never used this ID to buy anything, so there wasn't a credit card to associate with it. (That's common).
There were, however several associated e-mails and a custom security question.
Then the nightmare began.
One day, shortly before iOS7 was released, I woke up and my Apple ID password didn't work anymore.
I honestly have no clue how this happened.  It's just that e-mails stopped being read by my phone.
I tried to re-set it; but the system didn't accept my security answer; so I tried the new iOS.  That made it worse.  It was even less functional without the Apple ID.
Then, Apple consultants couldnt help so they advised me to make a new Apple ID and restore my phone.
Then, the situation got even worse.
Now the phone won't even restore without the old password (part of the much ballyhood security of iOS7.)
Though I've spent several hours with Apple Support on the issue; they KNOW it is me; they KNOW fully well it is my account at hand.
Yet their 'system' will not permit them to send a rescue e-mail to another account they know full well to be associated with the ID; and full well to be mine. Senior associates are unable or unwilling to assist.
Now my iPhone is inoperable and I'm without communication while living aborad.
Apple cares more about their system than their customers.
And they do not empower their senior consultants to make command decisions and grant me rightful access to my own account; and at this point my actual device is now wasted entirely as a result!
Very dissapointed- after being so loyal for so long.
If anyone has another answer to re-storing my iPhone without knowing the apple ID, it would be wonderful.

You need to contact Apple. Click here, phone them, and ask for the Account Security team.
It isn't possible to create a rescue email address without correctly answering at least two of the questions.
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