Less than 24 hours later the front porch was filled with enough boxes to pack my entire house; my mom had called 1-800-DIAL-A-BOX. She showed up nine days later driving a panel van, with a moving truck behind her. The movers loaded up most of my stuff, with my immediate personal belongings going in the panel van, and we set off to drive back to Connecticut.
We arrived home July 9th, and I spent the first week mostly eating and sleeping. My mother is an amazing cook; I easily gained 20 pounds in the first few months, but I could afford it- I was skinny as a rail. I had left my car in Connecticut when I first moved to Colorado, and in the years that I was gone my mom had sold it. She straight up bribed me with a new car if I would come home, and although I didn’t need the motivation, I held her to it. So I had a new Honda Civic with a standard transmission to get around. I got a job managing a nearby horse barn; everything from cleaning stalls to teaching lessons, and I loved it. I was working outside with horses and children and making decent money; what could be better?
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