I'm sitting here in my grandparents back porch.
There is a steady rise and fall in the constant hum of the cicadas, the frogs, and the crickets that live in the many trees that surround their house.
There are four bedrooms. A pool. My grandfather's chair from the University of Michigan, and a pantry full of liquor.
The last time I was here, it was for my mother's wedding to my step dad. I was 20, freshly tattooed, and mid-therapy. I brought a boyfriend into this house I wish I never had - but it's as if nobody even remembers he was here.
It's my husband's 30th birthday, today. Our only plan today was to have no plan. (And then a BBQ. And then the beach if the heavens permit.)
I've had a gigantic spider on my foot, ants in the dishwasher and mosquitoes sucking the blood out of my legs. There are mysterious bugs and reptiles everywhere I look, but somehow the safety of this house makes it all OK.
It's weird being surrounded by so many people that know me, when I spend hundreds of days at a time, in the company of strangers, unfamiliar buildings, and accents I can't place.
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