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The Slow Burn of an Empty Nest

When there’s more than one

Kristen Tsetsi
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readMay 3, 2022
Photo by Mohan Moolepetlu on Unsplash

“I don’t want them to go. Seriously. I love them to death. But once they are gone, won’t it be kind of nice to have fewer complications, fewer interruptions?”

These are the things you say before they go, before they’re gone.

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Kristen Tsetsi
Human Parts

Author of the post-Roe v. Wade novel THE AGE OF THE CHILD. “Breathtaking. A novel you can’t stop reading once you start.” - Jim Thomsen, Goodreads Review