Springs Thaw, Rice Ripens
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When one reaches adulthood, there are certain habits and routines one must learn as your relationships change to family. Once one leaves behind their smallest years, one perhaps stops running to their older sibling, clinging to their pants. Perhaps by junior high, you are decisively moving in a direction unlike them. And once you are both adults, with your separate lives, you need to consider what meaning you imbue in the moments of connection, and the objects you use as a proxy for the honesty and earnestness left in childhood.
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- Part 1 of Springs Thaw, Rice Ripens
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Waiting for that vibration each time got harder and harder. It was quite romantic to take in one's boyfriend at 18 and promise to do all one could to protect him from his own kin, and another to keep trying unsuccessfully to do it for 18 months straight, as both of you had your own work to tend to, in different worlds, and a force more primal than ocean between you: A matriarch.
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- Part 2 of Springs Thaw, Rice Ripens