I stood in our Brooklyn apartment last June watching Max press his nose against the window for the third time that morning. My golden retriever had officially lost it. So had I, honestly. The kids — Lily’s 7, Noah’s 10 — were fighting over the remote again, and Jake looked at me with that expression that said “we need to leave this city immediately.”

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