Oh, man, to describe the homecoming! From the Korean dinner simmering on Robert's stove at first arrival TO making ice cream in Kim's old pot TO watching vegan Britt eat a hamburger with glee TO playing croquet and eating mulberries in Hulmboldt Park like it's never changed TO communal fires and city skeeters TO bumping into old friends by coincidence at a restaurant TO my brother only being 3 hrs drive away TO finding the grace of flatland at the Heiney family farm....Chicago holds a lot in the palm of its hand. Boy do I miss it. And girl, am I glad I got to go back for a swarm of delights and wonders.
Only 2 years after leaving, people change, people stay the same, people marry, mess up, impregnate, lose weight, gain hair, grow businesses, develop works of art, nest further into their homes, change their paint color and become all the wiser. The pity was it was only for 5 days, short, sweet and packed into the most retrievable part of my memory.
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