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Receptacles: A Homecoming
It’s late June 2022, pandemic still a slow burn.
I’m at my parents’ house, on the highest hill in Carlsbad, CA. Nightly, my dad draws dark curtains against the Pacific sunset. I’ve come alone, my sons back home in Chicago with my husband. This is by design.