My brother calls, tells me Dad's getting lost in his own house again... and suddenly the ocean feels like a glass wall, not a comfort, just something between me and the storm I know is brewing, the one I'm supposed to fix. Am I the only one who feels this white-hot rage, that I'm supposed to drop everything, again, for a mess everyone else just *expects* me to clean up?
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