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• Despite our new dedication to open discussion, the next week passed without much excitement. We all hunkered down for exams before the break, I think, and it took away most of our energy. The three of us pressed together a few times, but it was a quick thing with none of the 'performance' of our earlier sessions.
• Then break started and we got caught up in prepping for Thanksgiving. Despite my mom's insistence that everything was going to be as cheap and easy as possible, we still ended up spending all our time on cooking and cleaning. The fact that we were having a guest, I think, made Mom feel way more self-conscious about how we were living.
• The house we were renting was old, almost certainly haunted, and it collected dust everywhere -- like someone was using a sifter of sand in every room when we weren't looking. It made every cleaning project an extra chore, more like exhuming a body than keeping our own living quarters clean.