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Fall is my favorite time of the year. There is an easiness to the season. Crisp weather, dope jackets, a relaxing drive up the Hudson Parkway with the fall foliage coloring your way to upstate New York. Pumpkin spice lattes, Trader Joe’s unlimited supply of all things pumpkin, hearty soups, and the yearly discussion of “You like pumpkin pie?” Homecoming, college football, “Go Blue!” texts on Saturday mornings for a University of Michigan win. Fourth-quarter music releases, Oscar-contending movie releases, the World Series. Fall centers me.
This past Sunday, a strange feeling came over me — the feeling of normalcy. All because I sat on the couch and turned on my television to watch the first Sunday game of the NFL season. The sun was coming into my window, the way that it reflects differently in the fall hue. And for the first time, I felt normal, my fall tradition uninterrupted. It was so unnormal that I had a moment with myself to mark the mood. In a year where…
