When CC Wong met his mom's new tenant, he never suspected he'd end up getting replaced as a son.

Or that his replacement might have sinister motives.

This week, invisibility looks at the things we don't say to our loved ones

and the misunderstandings it can lead to.

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Civic pondering and even some fresh definitions of the soul.

I do not believe in a solid self as I don't believe in a soul that outlives

the rest of the constellation of being the physical being that is us.

But at the same time, it is where we spring from, the usness of us is rooted in this very complex

interplay of values, beliefs, ideas, friends, places we've been, smells we've remembered,

and you know, and it's impossible to be a person without that.

It took 13.7 billion years for the atoms to come together to create the portal to the universe,

which is my physical self.

So in that statement is this idea or the fluidity of time and space,

and I kind of see it all at once.

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