Hello! Hello! I don't believe in god or angels or faeries, but whoever's doling out boring weeks, please give me one, okay? A low-stakes, visitor-free, no-drama week would be reaallllly nice right now.

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The killing thing about family, blood-kin or married-into: family can be a tyranny, in itself and as an ideal, and yet everyone tells each other it's worth keeping. Still, still, I wish. For what is there worth holding on to, beside people?

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