My Sister Showed Off Her New House—And My Mother Looked At Me

check. The absence of my family was painful some days, the way an extracted tooth still aches when you press your tongue to the gap. You know the tooth needed to go. You know you’re healthier without it. But the gap is there, and your tongue keeps finding it, and for a while, the absence is more present than the tooth ever was.

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