Word: guestroom
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...year. I don’t use the word “home” lightly—it’s a tricky thing. During my first winter break back at my first home, in San Diego, I returned to find my former bedroom converted to a sterile guestroom. Stripped of my pictures, the walls begged for personality. My bed had new sheets, charcoal gray, and the bookshelves were empty. The tightly woven strands of high school memory, made of the stuff of Hanukkah candle-lightings, of late-night drinking and Pacific Coast sunrises, of first kisses and baseball...
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