Day 238: The Neighbor I Didn't Notice

August 26, 2026

"Astrid realizes while stocking the community fridge that Mrs. Reyes — a twenty-three-year resident above it — has been displaced, her eviction coinciding exactly with Astrid's viral accountability report; confronting for the first time that she is materially a gentrifier, she resolves to help with the trust fund, then immediately opens her laptop to write about why she should do it."