the House's churn of falling and standing
Chandler Foss finished out his nine months and graduated but came back the next morning and hung around for Morning Meditation, which has to be a good sign sobriety-wise for the old Chandulator.
Context
The institution's ongoing traffic of recovery caught in one bit of gossip: a man completes his nine months, graduates, and comes back the very next morning for the meditation he no longer has to attend — read, correctly, as a good sign. Against the four-years-sober drowning and the jonesy returning residents, this is the other pole of the House's daily churn, the graduate who keeps showing up because staying is the thing that works.