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I didn’t notice it happening day by day. It was a slow dimming, like a lampshade being pulled over the city. My living room window in Silver Lake offered a postcard view of the downtown skyline, a sliver of glittering promise I’d paid extra for. But over months, a gritty film settled on the glass—a […]

It was the first weekend after Thanksgiving, and the box sat in my garage like a guilty secret. Inside, a tangled snake’s nest of last year’s Christmas lights, a ladder that felt less stable every season, and a sense of dread. I’m not as young as I used to be, and the thought of scaling […]