"Start Over"

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-Title: Start Over
-Date: 2023-09-18 12:00
-Category: other
-Tags: anecdotal
-Status: draft
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-> _Can we all start over  
-> After the final chapter's end?  
-> When it all starts over  
-> How do these scars begin to mend?_
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-> —_Centaurworld_
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-I moved apartments the other week, on some philosopher's birthday or the anniversary of a national tragedy, to a studio back on the correct side of the Caldecott Tunnel ([now that I've learned my lesson about](/2023/Jul/blanchards-dangerous-idea-and-the-plight-of-the-lucid-crossdreamer/#correct-side-of-the-tunnel) which side of the tunnel is correct).
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-[TODO: I had thought I had to leave Berkeley, but that was a metonym
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-my reasonably comfortable afterlife /2022/Jun/an-egoist-faith/
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-]
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-Here in the part of Berkeley that's secretly Oakland, there used to be a "free store" on the corner—shelves for people to leave unwanted consumer goods and to take them to a good home. It's gone now, due to some combination of adverse attention from city municipal code inspectors and a fire, which means I need to find some other place to dump my spare junk in the next week and a half.
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-Now there's a butcher paper sign on the fence with a pen on a string, asking community members to write a note on what the free store meant to them.
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-One of the messages reads:
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-> i'm a (very broke) trans woman  
-> and i don't often feel great about  
-> my body, but there are a few items  
-> that i found here that fit me in a way  
-> thats very affirming to me