Four Reasons We Are Mean to the People We Love

There’s a phenomenon to proximity.

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Every time my family would drive down I-75 from our home in Toledo we would pass a perfectly boxed building encompassed in glass that stuck out of the countryside like a boomer at an EDM concert. Eventually, we came to anticipate the moment and would beat my father to his inevitable reflection: “Yes, dad. We know you tiled that…