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Kendra and her husband and their two kids moved back to Boston, and it wasn't going great for her.
She's a teacher, but hadn't found a teaching job yet.
So she did odd jobs, a little thing at the John F.
Kennedy Presidential Library.
She worked as an usher for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Which, can I say, these are like the kind of Boston specific jobs you would give a character who moved to Boston in a bad movie.
Like, the only thing I wasn't doing is, like, selling foam fingas at Fenway Pack.
And I made, like, very little money.
She was actually pretty depressed, just dragging herself through the motions of living, not looking forward to anything.
And it wouldn't go away.
She couldn't shake it.
I would wake up in the morning and feel sort of irritated, like, oh, this again.
I went to work and I would put a smile on my face, but I oftentimes would not hear anything anyone said to me.
So she's four months into this new downer of her life, and she gets off work, and it's April, one of the first bright, sunny days after a long, dark winter.
And she's excited to take her dog Skylar, to Wollaston beach near her house on this pretty day.