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Within days of my father “kicking the bucket,” I was off to a family friend’s house. There, I’d be given some “recovery time,” a period to grieve, while doing my best to stay focused on school. This ideology ended up working out as well, in the long-run, as a rebuilt…

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During my youth, realizations that my life was more complicated than that of others came quickly. It wasn’t long before I realized that my own parents stayed up way too late…