By December I felt the itch to return home, but I made sure to enjoy myself in New Orleans, Alabama, Georgia, and DC as best I could with my desperate longing for the familiar. When I came home I literally cried hysterically for 20 minutes just holding my puppies. I was home for Christmas. Everything was warm. My past so gorgeous, my future so possible, but my present so present. So comforting and beautiful. It was a great ending to honestly the best year of my life. Thank you, thank you, thank you world.