where I’m from

I’m from New Jersey.

but I wasn’t born there.

and I somehow knew I wouldn’t stay.

I was allured to the farm here in PA when Mom and Dad and my sister moved here in the 80’s but wasn’t welcomed here. Neither was my brother Steve. I made my own lateral move here via the state hospital. And then, a paradigm shift through Buffalo (off of NYC/Boston) and baby Ian. So now I am from here.

in the meantime I have lived in Texas, Southern California, Buffalo, Maryland, and Florida, in that order, since leaving PA in 1991

And I was also born in PA although not near here. It is a confusing story.

I plan to retire here if I live long enough. But to the next county over.

Here I am living with mice. There are two running boldly around the floor right now. I had a pet mouse with Ian and I am insufficiently primed against mice and these two have crept up on me. Don’t know what to do. I hate to kill them.

Travis and Tanner the cats would so help me with this if they were near.

I long to be at home with them in my own place.

Resolved: I will talk with the building superintendent tomorrow morning about the mice. This is just too crazy.

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