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The Version of You That Stayed | A Quiet Story About Pittsburgh

At 42, you ride the late bus home through Pittsburgh and think about the version of you that left. A quiet story about staying, choosing, and the weight of seventeen years in one place. On a February night, the 71A pulls through familiar streets. The apartment was supposed to be temporary. The job was supposed to be steady. Seventeen years ago, you had a bus ticket to Portland and a choice to make. Tonight, you think about the life that nearly happened—the woman named Claire, the children who don’t exist, the version of you that kept moving. This is a story about what could have been, and what it means to stay for someone else. Melancholic, but not heavy. The ache of wondering without the weight of regret. Headphones optional. Low volume works. Themes inside this episode: • The difference between choosing to stay and allowing it • Alternate lives that exist only in imagination • Family obligation, and the slow accumulation of years • Pittsburgh winter as witness to a life that settles What version of you exists in the space between what happened and what nearly did? Content note: themes of parental illness, caregiving, and grief. Death is present, handled gently. This story is fictional. Thanks for spending this quiet time here. 00:00 The 71A, Late February 00:35 The Apartment That Was Temporary 04:50 The Greyhound Station, 2008 07:36 What Staying Becomes 11:20 If You'd Left for Portland 17:25 Claire and the Life That Nearly Was 20:50 The Children Who Don't Exist 24:00 Rachel's Message 29:42 The Flickering Light on Negley Avenue #QuietStories #SlowStorytelling #Pittsburgh #TheRoadNotTaken #NarratedFiction