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Love made me leave behind a place right near my parents in Houston to join my partner in a town without a single restaurant.I’d first met my partner a decade earlier, but we’d reconnected more recently — while long-distance — over a shared love of stories, coffee, and baseball.From the…
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I grew up in a small town in eastern North Carolina. After high school, I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.I went to Philly for college and fell in love with big-city life. So when I came back South after graduation, I moved to the largest city in North…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maren Droubay, a 32-year-old who moved from Salt Lake City to New York City with her family. It’s been edited for length and clarity.My husband and I are from the Salt Lake City area of Utah, and we have five young…
Every house has a unique smell that is said to be unrecognizable until you’re away for a period of time. Despite the constant comments from friends and visitors about the smell of my childhood home, I couldn’t have described it to you until I moved away from home.As the oldest…
