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A Humbling Return to Strength

There comes a time in every person’s life when they decide to turn a corner. To rebuild. To rise from the ashes. For me, that moment arrived one early Saturday afternoon when I pressed play on an Apple Fitness+ upper body strength workout and essentially broke myself in 20 minutes flat. Now, I should back

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The Longest Night

The thing they don’t tell you about hospice is that it’s not the big moments that undo you—it’s the small ones. It’s the oxygen machine humming in the dark like a mechanical lullaby you didn’t ask for. It’s the four-hour med schedule that turns you into a human metronome, ticking along to the beat of

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The Call

We were supposed to be in Mexico City right now. Eating tamales. Climbing pyramids. Pretending not to be winded while climbing pyramids after eating tamales. Instead, I’m standing in my bedroom, staring at a suitcase that’s both overstuffed and missing at least three important things—probably pants. The phone rang yesterday. One of those louder than

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