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Part 3:<\/strong><\/h1>\n

My apartment is quiet. My phone does not control me. My money stays where I choose to put it.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I still drive past my parents\u2019 house. It looks the same from the outside. In winter, there will be candles in the windows and a perfect table inside.<\/p>\n

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I will not be there.<\/p>\n

Not because I was thrown out.<\/p>\n

Not because I am punishing them.<\/p>\n

But because I finally understand the difference between being loved and being used as infrastructure.<\/p>\n

They called it carrying me.<\/p>\n

I called it keeping the lights on.<\/p>\n

Now their lights are their responsibility.<\/p>\n

Mine are still on.<\/p>\n

They always were.<\/p>\n

I was just too busy powering everyone else\u2019s life to notice my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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