I have always referred to myself as a city slicker, despite never wanting to be. I grew up in a medium-sized city and, after high school, enrolled in the local community college.
I got married in my hometown, too, and we bought a house 15 minutes from my parents. Despite my dreams of moving high up the Appalachian Mountains, or to some coastal California retreat, I became the adult I swore I never would be.
When I was a teenager, I wanted to explore. Backpack through Europe, hitchhike the Midwest, explore volcanic islands in the Pacific.
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