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[lostakasha]

Those of you who've known me on LJ for years know that I wanted nothing more than to leave Boston for California. My hometown is full of contradictions, as all hometowns are, and there are lots of painful pockets and inhospitable neighborhoods that for years I ached to leave in the rear-view. I'm still glad that I left, despite the terrible knot in

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[femmenerd]

Hearts are big. They can have more than one home. <3

[sinkwriter]

What a beautiful way to say it.

:)

[sinkwriter]

I think I'd feel the same way about Green Bay. Even though I was born and raised there, I feel like I'm still trying to find the place that's truly 'home' to me, that feels like the perfect fit for ME, rather than where my family wants me to be, you know? But at the same time, if anything terrible were to happen in Green Bay, to the places I know and have walked and visited so many times, I can't even imagine how upsetting and surreal and terrible it would feel. So complicated.

At any rate, I send you massive hugs.

[cheesygirl]

I totally understand. All I wanted to do my whole life was get away from my backwater hometown of Pascagoula, but ever since Katrina destroyed so much of it I find myself missing it terribly. It's where I grew up, it's mine, and seeing it torn asunder was painful. All you want to do is put it back right, the way it always was in your memories.

::hugs::

[dragonydreams]

I don't know what I'd do if something like that happened in my hometown, even though Boston has been my home for over a decade. It's just been awful here. I was in a bit of a fog all day today, and I wasn't anywhere near the Marathon yesterday. Several of my co-workers knew people who were injured or killed, which brings it all closer to home.