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the records are coming with me.

Dad’s crates, my ’90s shelf, and a very strong opinion about side A.

Brown leather seating, a gray blanket, and a warm lamp beside the family cabin’s fireplace at Blackpine Lake

some people inherit good china. i got milk crates full of records and opinions about how loud to play them.

dad’s side of the collection is skynyrd, seger, petty, zeppelin. mine wanders into pearl jam and alice in chains. there’s overlap. there’s also no reason to settle every argument before the record ends.

a ritual worth bringing back.

one good side a. a side b worth defending. that’s the friday ritual i want to make room for again.

i don’t need the room to look like a listening lounge. i need somewhere comfortable and enough time to let the record finish.

have a look around the cabin.

The photograph shows the family cabin at Blackpine Lake. Dana Rae’s new home base is the apartment above the shop in Black Falls. This is an introduction to her fictional world; no microdrama episodes have been released.