Making a House a Home

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I’ve lived in this home since you were born. Well. Not this house. I’ve lived in five houses since you were born. But each house was this home, the only world I could claim. My dominion was my domicile. I brought three of you home to three different houses.

And each time I prepared the same way for you.

I washed the sheets and tucked the quilts. I swept the crumbs and righted the books. A chair in…