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Went home for the week­end, spent it with Darren. It was a gloomy few days; cloudy, humid, and gen­er­ally uncomfortable.

At one point, Darren asked me if it felt like home, or whether my apart­ment here has taken the role. I couldn’t really answer him at the time. I just knew that they feel dif­fer­ent. We lit up in a park that I used to play in while I was still in ele­men­tary school, and it felt odd to be stoned in a beau­ti­fully empty play­ground in the mid­dle of Saturday, sur­rounded by all these upper-middle class houses with their pools and patios. Places that aren’t com­fort­able, but familiar.