‘As a child I solely considered leaving, eager to be some other place, to turn out to be one thing else. We spent afternoons escaping behind the grocery retailer or taking place to the prepare tracks to smoke cigarettes away from the disapproving attentions of academics. I purchase groceries for my household at that very same retailer nowadays. Now that it’s dwelling once more, I can see that it has all the time proven its bruises, whether or not that’s the evident inequality, a scarcity of identification, a crumbling infrastructure, or a younger girl panhandling for change. It’s a city in stasis, however I’m a part of it and it is part of me’
