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      <description><![CDATA[Father's Day was wonderful — and if you're a caregiver, you probably already know why that sentence makes me uncomfortable. On guilt, the math we do before every outing, and remembering that caring goes both directions.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[This weekend we took a history boat tour as a family — laughter, sunshine, a few hours that weren't about illness. Then the crash came. On PEM, the cost of making memories, and the question every caregiver eventually has to ask.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A progress update on my first model. Skin, hair, and fur are done, and she's actually turning out well. Now I'm on the gold details — and I have learned that painting gold sucks.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of the hardest lessons I've learned as a caregiver: sometimes the person you love isn't really themselves. Sometimes it's the crash speaking for them — and knowing the difference can change everything.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[There's a funny part of starting something new that nobody really talks about — the part before the thing looks like a thing. That's where I'm at right now.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[People talk about burnout like it always looks like exhaustion. Mine looked messier than that. On survival mode, therapy, and how sitting down to paint one small thing helped me find my way back.]]></description>
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