30 May 2022

It feels good to be back in the city. It feels good to walk down Bedford, to marvel at the heat and sweat and sizzling trailers and drunken picnickers. But you know I am nervous with comfort; the lease renewal knocks and wills me to commit, commit, recommit.

Two women sit in the grass, under small trees, in front of what looks to be an abandoned building. They are smiling.

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