My Parents Lived In My Duplex For Free Then Secretly Rented Out What I Owned

a house, a garden, a life I had earned and defended and continued. The study windows repaired. The floors still mine. The light still true.

That is everything.

I want to say something about the year, because the year itself was the thing Daniel was impatient with and the thing I am most grateful for.

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