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You've Got A Stranger

This has been the longest week I've had in a very long time. A lot went down. A lot of frustration. A lot of tears. A lot of confusion. A lot of time fighting the lies that so easily creep into my mind unchecked. I thought the length of the week was over when I got on my next flight but it wasn't. Lots of texts and phone calls with family members to find out some tough news about a loved one; flying with zero access to information made those flights take days to land. On my last leg of my flight to Indiana, with tears filling my eyes, a tired body and mind, I just kept praying and thinking " I want more time to make it better." My family is interesting. Lovely people. But completely disconnected. And as someone who is so fueled by people, I hate that. I've been trying to rekindle deeper relationships with my extended family little by little. And news of my grandfather's stroke shook me. "I'm not done. I want to know more." Is all the