Long-distance love, by Milana Vayntrub
Meditative Story
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You Can't Change People, You Know This
When my dad gets to my house, the baby is sleeping in this little swing in our living room. My dad wants to wake him, and i say, we have to let him sleep a little longer. He's not happy about it, but i don't back down. In a few weeks, he'll head back to the airport, fly back to moscow, and then he'll just be a cheerful, balding, mustachioed russian man talking to my son through a screen. It's agony being even this far from him. I want something different for us, different from what i had. I want the intimacy that comes from sticking around after the charm has worn
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