Day: August 22, 2021

Gone but Not Forgotten

At last, tomorrow is the start of Ember’s and my long-awaited camping trip. I’m excited. She’s not. That’s what she told me, with her usual honesty, during a video chat last night. Eleni says Em alternates between anticipation and anxiety. She seems wary of leaving the familiarity of parents, sibs and pets. Indeed, they’ve been an exceptionally tight-knit unit during their isolation for the past 1.5 years of Covid. Their attachment to one other must […]

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