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home is the House now

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She went home. She went to the House.

Context

The whole recovery arc measured in two flat sentences: released as bait and knowing it, Joelle's move is simply to go home, and home is no longer the Brighton apartment or the radio booth — it's Ennet House. The word "home" does the work, casually, without comment: the halfway house that took her in has quietly become the place she belongs to, the institution having replaced every prior address in her life. Recovery not as an event but as a change in where a person's feet automatically carry her.

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