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41. We moved too many times to say that about a single structure.

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:03 AM

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However, I did briefly visit my hometown back in 2023.

It is a shadow of what it was (which was not that much, to be honest). There are collapsing houses along Main Street. The center of town is all but dead. Over half of the storefronts are empty. There is despair and surrender everywhere I looked.

Half of the houses I was raised in are either gone or were remodeled and look nothing like they did.

I did not stay long. Too painful. Too much anger at being correct about the area and its desire to remain in the long forgotten past. Too upsetting to see what was a halfway decent town trying desperately to self-implode rather than accept progress.

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