Chapter Five - The Home Had A Backlog Too
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I was the loud one. Shouting had become the default in that house. Mine most of all. Kids learn fast. They started talking to each other the way we talked to them. One evening, deep in it, I thought about my dad. He used to shout too. Later in life he became the calm one. The one everyone gravitated toward without deciding to. He passed in 2023. Sitting in my own kitchen, years after, I wasn't wondering what he'd have made of us. I already knew. We didn't fix it that night. But we started asking a different question. Not what's wrong today. Who do we actually want to be.
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