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I give you the tour before you’ve set down your bag. This is the kitchen where I have cried into pasta water. This is the couch where I rehearse what I will say to you in the car. The car is outside. We can get in the car. I will show you the parking lot where I sat for forty minutes before a job interview in 2019. Here is the bathroom. The mirror is the same one I looked into when I was twenty three and thought: so this is who we’re going with. We’re still going with her. The fridge has mustard. The mustard is almost out. I am almost out of mustard, that felt important to say now, at the beginning, so you could decide.