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I bought a house earlier this year. Yes, in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. I hadn’t had my own place since 2012. My apartment was fine enough but it felt so temporary. It wasn’t mine and that bothered me. I realized I was finally at the stage in my life where I needed

Today is my mom’s birthday—she would’ve been 77. She passed away in 2003, just nine days shy of her 60th, leaving a void that still aches. I miss her laugh, the way she’d savor a Hershey bar with almonds, a cigarette, and a Coke, always finding joy in the small things. Today, my nephew is