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My dad is in prison. I don’t think I’ve ever said that in any public capacity. It’s not like it comes up organically in conversation. How do you bring that up? “What did you do this weekend?” “Oh nothing much. Laundry, grocery shopping, went to see my dad in jail. You know, the usual.” But that is my usual. I wait for his weekly phone call, and we go see him as often as we can. Which isn’t as often as I’d like, but he’s almost 3 hours from us and I have to coordinate to be sure other […]
Family
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