#Love
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast;Man never Is, but always To be blest:The soul, uneasy and confin’d from home,Rests and expatiates on a life to come. ~Alexander Pope from An Essay On Man, Epistle 1, 1733 This quote has languished at the head of an otherwise-empty, drafted blog post for more than 9 years.
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When my sister reached out to me in an email in late Fall of 2020, my heart quickened in my chest. Once every year or two, she would throw out some little message or feeler. For the last decade, I had rarely responded, and the few times I did, the exchange was brief. It had
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In the Spring of 2006, I packed up my car, gave my roommates a final farewell, and headed down the road. I wasn’t sure exactly where I was going or where I would live next, but I knew I had to leave where I was. Life seemed to have run its course under my present





