The Thing That Was Missing

Furniture

The first thing I noticed was the chair.

It was an old wooden chair that had been sitting in the corner of my friend Daniel’s apartment for months. Nobody ever used it. Nobody even talked about it. It was the kind of furniture people keep because throwing it away feels wrong, even though they have no reason to keep it.

The chair had scratches along the arms and a dark stain near one of the legs. Daniel always covered it with a blanket whenever guests came over, almost like he didn’t want anyone looking at it.

I asked him about it once.

“Old family stuff,” he said.

Then he changed the subject.

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