That's where your home was the last time you were at home. I would start there. Now maybe you will go back to Chicago and find your home is gone. Perhaps your mother does not need you there.

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Home Is Where Your Best Friend Is. Author Mira Jacob explores the grief that overtook her when her best friend moved away after living in the same city for 22 years.