She let her dog poop on the airport floor, yelled at staff, and blasted music with no headphones. But by

It started off as something I noticed from the kitchen window. Every afternoon, just as the sun crept past the

It started with a single bookshelf. Not even a big one—just something he built in the garage after my grandma

He said it would only be for two weeks. Just a simple overseas assignment, some conference thing in Berlin. “All

I’d been dreaming about this moment for months. Our first real getaway, just the three of us—no screens, no chaos,