My Mother Said I Only Care About Myself Until I Canceled Everything I Was Paying

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I looked at it for a moment. Then I set the phone down and finished my coffee.

The apartment was quiet in a way it had been getting quieter for three months. Not empty, and not the absence of something. The presence of something I was still learning to name. Something that had been there all along, underneath everything continue reading …