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Day 1 - March 15thDr. Reeves suggested I start writing things down. She says it might help me track the “episodes,” as she delicately calls them. I prefer to think of them as Tuesday and Wednesday—the days when the walls breathe, expanding and contracting like they’re alive, and the neighbors’ conversations leak through the electrical outlets like secrets whispered in the dark. I want to establish something from the outset: I’m not crazy. I’m a software engineer, for crying out loud. I have a mortgage, and I remember to water my plants—thos...
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I keep his old soccer cleats in my closet, the ones with grass stains that never came out, and laces he double-knotted because he said it brought him luck. They still smell like the field—dirt and sweat and that particular scent of Saturday mornings when everything felt possible. Dad played in the over-40 league every weekend until I was fifteen. I'd sit in the aluminum bleachers with Mom, watching him sprint down the sideline with more enthusiasm than skill, his receding hairline glistening with sweat. He wasn't the best player, but he was ...
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