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temporary homes - by Sophie Kim - sophie at inkhaven!

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notes on the end of an era

I’m in my room, it’s 1AM. I’m calling a friend I haven’t spoken to in a while. I’m telling him about how lovely my apartment in Cambridge is, how spoiled it’s made me, how I’m not sure if I can survive uni without an en-suite, a washer-dryer, a dishwasher, and a kitchenette. This has made me so spoiled, I joke; forget uni this fall, how can I go back to my hometown *tomorrow?* I say it cheekily, I make it into a bit– he laughs, references the song “champagne problems”– but on some level, I know the things I say when I’m joking are often truer than the things I have the courage to say out…

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