Where do you call home? It took me a while to feel like I wasn't just a temporary visitor out here. You know that feeling you had in college, when you lived in random apartments, where the white walls and old mismatched furniture made it difficult to feel like home - it was just where you lived.
I felt like that, that is, until I took to painting a couple walls. I finally stopped using my umich address, and started settling in. Now we talk about staying. But something's still missing. So many sentences still end with 'when we go back.' It seems we have to make the same decision so many other transplants have to make. How can you not like California? People move on all the time, but is it the right decision for us? Regardless, deep down my heart is where I spent all those years growing into who I am today.
I may live in California, but I still call Michigan my home.
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