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Trin walking along a sand pool in Lencois Maranhenses

Where is Home?

I’m at a party meeting new people hoping they don’t ask me, but I know it is inevitable. We engage in small talk. Someone says something funny, we all laugh. And then someone asks me the question that is supposed to be simple, yet I don’t know how to answer. “Where are you from?“ I’ve

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Long Lost Cousins

The last time I saw my cousin Kevin was in El Paso, TX. He and his family (his father and his four other siblings) lived with us for a bit while they were getting reestablished in TX after their move from NY.  They were going through some difficult times, so my mom and dad took them

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Road Trip

We pulled out of Raleigh the morning of Aug 8th. We had loaded everything we still owned into our car. The good old Subaru looked like it was ready to burst at the seams. We stood there in the parking lot, staring at the car. Everything we owned packed like a futomaki. Barely recognizable things plastered against

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Renovations And Goodbyes

A month of renovations and goodbyes are almost behind us now. Weekdays and weekends meld into one long weekend as we awake to work on the renovation of an investment property that we will rent out before leaving the area. We are camped out on an air mattress in the living room. We wake in the morning, cook

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