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LINCOLN
[110 weeks ago]
@theanswerisno:
Don’t go in there
@pancakesareelite:
I don’t take advice from strangers
@theanswerisno:
You’ll be dead in 3 seconds
@pancakesareelite:
Who are you and why are you in my DMs?
@theanswerisno:
2 seconds
@pancakesareelite:
I don’t trust you
@theanswerisno:
1 second
@pancakesareelite:
No
@pancakesareelite:
NO!
@theanswerisno:
Welcome to the Engineering Lobby
Main quest: Pack up my old bedroom. Side quest: Be consumed by nostalgia.
“Donate it all,” I yelled down the hallway.
I spun around on the once-black rug, which had faded to various shades of gray. There was too much to do. Growing up, I had nothing and everything at the same time. At least, that was how it felt while sorting through the stacks of used comic books, odd blocks of Legos, and shelves of superhero figurines that were already old when I’d received them.
I swung open one of the closet doors. The white plastic hangers drooped with at least ten crinkled items hanging on top of each other.
There was so much clutter. So many things my mother wouldn’t let go of.
I grabbed as many hangers off the rail as I could manage and tossed them into a box. My mother walked through the doorway at that exact moment and gasped. “You’re giving everything away?”
The scent of cinnamon reached me before she set down two steaming cups of chai. My favorite. Regardless of the weather, Mom used every opportunity to offer me a warm beverage.
