It wasn’t where I thought I would be when I climbed up the Metro stairs, but it was close enough. It was the city, the city where I worked for 10 years and don’t work anymore.

It was the city where sidewalks would gleam with water sprayed from hoses in the hot summer sun.

It was the city where I would traipse home at the end of a long day.

It was the city that now, surprisingly, welcomed me home.