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Wherever you collapse at day's end and dare call it yours.

means A place where someone lives — a home or dwelling.

from From Old English 'abad,' the noun bred from 'abidan,' meaning to abide, wait, or remain. So an abode is literally a place where you abide — where you stay put. The same verb gives us 'abide' in 'abide with me' and 'I can't abide that,' both circling the old sense of staying, enduring, holding your ground in one spot.

law of fixed
Legally, the place you intend to return to
word root
From Old English for waiting and remaining
humble flex
My humble abode signals neither humble nor modest
tax stakes
Your abode of record decides where taxes land
for instance

fallingwater — frank lloyd wright's iconic house built over a waterfall in pennsylvania, 1935

monticello — thomas jefferson's neoclassical mansion in charlottesville, virginia, designed 1768

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