I’m working from home today as our movers pack up our apartment for tomorrow’s move. I’m thinking about the place we’re moving into, and I’m also thinking about the place we moved out of before we moved into the place we’re about to move out of. If you think about it, every place you ever lived in your life is linked, one to another. All the apartments and houses and dorms. If I try, I can probably visualize almost all of my moves — except for a few, such as moving in and out of dorms every year during college, which tend to run together (especially when I moved in and out of the same place more than once). There are some weird linkages, too, such as the time I moved almost all my stuff into storage while biding time at my parents’ house for a few months. But really, I can probably visualize everything all the way back to the earliest move I remember, when I was three years old and we moved from Queens into the New Jersey suburbs.
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