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Category: Starting Over

The day I scored for the wrong subreddit

I was posting with total confidence until I realized I’d been running toward the wrong goal…

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Selling the Prelude for our first house

We thought we were buying a starter home.
Turns out, we were really buying the first 30 years…

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The hill got steeper than we thought

The storm made the trail perfect, right before it launched me over the handlebars…

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When the ground gave way

We thought we were building a future, then the economy took almost everything but our will to keep going…

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Take what’s left

I keep offering the glass, even when my own throat is dry…

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I almost didn’t open it

I didn’t expect a few words on paper to stay with me this long…

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It was supposed to feel like freedom

I thought it would feel like freedom… it didn’t feel like that at all…

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I didn’t know where I was going

I didn’t know where I was going… I just knew I couldn’t stay…

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