"Mr. Peterson has lived almost his entire life not just in Greenbelt, but in the very house we currently reside in."
Almost my entire life, yes - but don't forget that I was born in Michigan. As a child, I considered Berrien Springs, Michigan, to be my hometown, which I'd been forcibly wrenched away from by my parents. Greenbelt was too hot, too alien in culture. If you think you've undergone culture shock, try being an eight-year-old who has spent all their life in a small-town Christian community with a commonly accepted set of values, and who is suddenly expected to be happy in a suburb where people scrawl swear words on public walls.
Even when I got old enough to contemplate living somewhere besides Berrien Springs, Greenbelt was the place I was going to move away from. It was where my parents lived. It was where people lived who had known me most of my life . . . or thought they knew me. I moved to Annapolis, to Western New York, to Oxford, to Baltimore, seeking that illusive special spot. Every time, homesickness brought me
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Almost my entire life, yes - but don't forget that I was born in Michigan. As a child, I considered Berrien Springs, Michigan, to be my hometown, which I'd been forcibly wrenched away from by my parents. Greenbelt was too hot, too alien in culture. If you think you've undergone culture shock, try being an eight-year-old who has spent all their life in a small-town Christian community with a commonly accepted set of values, and who is suddenly expected to be happy in a suburb where people scrawl swear words on public walls.
Even when I got old enough to contemplate living somewhere besides Berrien Springs, Greenbelt was the place I was going to move away from. It was where my parents lived. It was where people lived who had known me most of my life . . . or thought they knew me. I moved to Annapolis, to Western New York, to Oxford, to Baltimore, seeking that illusive special spot. Every time, homesickness brought me ( ... )
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