Every phone call ends with me feeling like I'm twelve. I love them. I just can't keep doing this weekly.
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Thirty-four years of being the family's emotional shock absorber.
Shorter calls, not fewer. Twenty minutes, warm, then a real reason to go. No announcements, no manifesto. Boundaries landed better as habits than as speeches.
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