“I Came Home Early to Find My Parents Packing My Life Away Without Telling Me”

glittering Chicago skyline and realized something profound: peace isn’t something you’re given by other people. It’s something you build for yourself, brick by brick, boundary by boundary, choice by choice, until you look around and realize the life you’re living finally belongs to you.

My phone buzzed with a text from my dad: Proud of you, kiddo.

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