OPEN QUESTION
Six hundred and ninety miles
The question
Whether you can keep living thirteen hours away from your parents, which is fine for a holiday and not fine for a Tuesday when something happens.
What hangs on it
You looked the drive up this week for the first time in seven years. You said the number out loud to Danny, he offered a week in the summer, and you told him that is not what you meant. It got left there because it was twenty past seven and you had a nine o'clock, but neither of you made the sentence smaller first.
Evidence
Latest 5 of 10
“you do not relocate two careers to be near ageing parents in the abstract, you do it so that there are grandparents, so there is somebody to call, so that a Tuesday when something happens does not take thirteen hours”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“She was saying that if something happens at three in the morning, one of her daughters can be there before breakfast and the other one cannot.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“Two hours. I know. I can do the arithmetic, Mum.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“Unless we do. Which is now a sentence that exists.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“I stood in the yard tonight waiting for the dog to come in and looked back at it with the kitchen light on, and had the specific feeling you get about a house you are going to be sad to leave.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →
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