High fit

Storage tracks how much you hold onto — old experiences, grievances, hopes. G.J. Echternkamp had been storing a version of his childhood story for decades: the one where Frank was the villain and his mom was the victim who just needed rescuing. That story took up enormous space. When he finally hit his limit and left for New York, he started offloading it — not by resolving it, but by deciding it no longer had to live in the center of everything he did.