July 2022 brought its own set of challenges,
but there was nothing we couldn’t face—together.

I started spending more time with my mom,
and you got to know her family;
new faces, new spaces, and new steps toward healing.

And then came one of the sweetest memories:
we adopted our little furbaby, Nezuko.
Tiny, chaotic, perfect.
Our first little piece of “home.”

Even in the harder moments,
we were still building something soft and good.
And that mattered more than anything.

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