Tag: possession
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Paying It Forward
I don’t worry how my old clothes will look on their new owners at Goodwill. They have places to be, stories to live beyond my closet. Still, letting go feels strange. I hesitated at the donation bin, fingers brushing fabric worn soft by years of routine. Shirts that carried me through long days, pants that…
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Transporting Fragile Materials
Today was the day to dispossess all the possessions in her room.I take measurement after measurement, only making things ghostlier.She was never one for order, or for keeping stuff in one place, holding on to these impressions until thinkings end, and the lights went out.Preserving this was her joy, all these fragile materialsshe held on…