Thursday, March 06, 2008

home is where

Dylan,

After a lot of consideration, we're getting ready to sell your house and move.

I say "your house" because it's the only one you've ever known as your own so the word "home" has a concrete definition for you--it's not some abstraction that applies to wherever your bed might be.

I'm sure down the road this particular house will barely exist on the fringes of your memory, and that some other house(s) will have connected with you in ways that will cause it/them appear on the backside of your forehead whenever "home" is mentioned, but for now it's just this one house, one roof, one green door.

It's going to seem strange seeing everything packed up in boxes, and it's going to mess with a lot of your routines. I'll be watching to see how you handle it.


Dad

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