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Yet another road trip began with the forgetting of an important item five minutes into the trip. My dad’s girlfriend swung the car around, and my dad ran back into the house to fetch his forgotten phone. In preparing two cars and eight people for travel, it’s easy to lose track of those tiny things, such as the tiny machine that serves as your lifeline. In my dad’s case, a brand-new one. After the necessary gas station snack run, we drove two and a half hours to Edgefield, Or

My family has been going camping since we became a family. The summer I moved into my dad’s girlfriend’s house was the summer of isolation. The forced proximity of quarantine was something like the perfect time to carve out a new home. If you’re lucky. Which, thank goodness, I was. Skeptical, of course. Very skeptical. I was the only one that year who had my own room. Parents in the basement, four other kids sharing two other rooms. All of us crammed together in a house with