Honestly, I kind of get it too, having grown up in a small town in the western USA – one of those agricultural communities which had a short boom during the Roosevelt years and has been in a perpetual state of decay and opiod addiction every since the 1980s. Living there, I couldn’t wait to get out. But a few years ago, I met up with a childhood friend and we started reminiscing. My friend then summed it up: “You know, I kind of miss all that. It was weird and sad and crappy, but it was us…”
Honestly, I kind of get it too, having grown up in a small town in the western USA – one of those agricultural communities which had a short boom during the Roosevelt years and has been in a perpetual state of decay and opiod addiction every since the 1980s. Living there, I couldn’t wait to get out. But a few years ago, I met up with a childhood friend and we started reminiscing. My friend then summed it up: “You know, I kind of miss all that. It was weird and sad and crappy, but it was us…”