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+Title: Start Over
+Date: 2023-09-18 12:00
+Category: other
+Tags: anecdotal
+Status: draft
+
+> _Can we all start over  
+> After the final chapter's end?  
+> When it all starts over  
+> How do these scars begin to mend?_
+>
+> —_Centaurworld_
+
+I moved apartments last 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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+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.
+
+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.
+
+One of the messages reads:
+
+> 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