closing up shop

It’s been interesting/happy/sad, packing up the home that is the last place that had my mother’s fingerprints all over it. Undelivered Christmas present from my mom to Judy. Don’t know who Judy is. Yeah, I opened it. Inexpensive little plaster Christmas ornament. She and my stepdad moved into this home in 2000, so mom only…

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i had a party

I’m in the exhausted-tears phase as the final week-or-so of getting this house on the market explodes around me. I’m deeply grateful for the help my brother and sister provided this month, and now am deeply regretful about … well, pretty much everything. I can’t write about this house right now. I’m going to go…

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