I had great difficulty with this, which surprised me. I have been hashing it out all day. It has caused be to look back on a lot of things and see some of them differently. We had moved to another state 3 years earlier that was like being on another planet from the state of Texas. We were hundreds of miles away from family and friends. It was like I had been cast away on a foreign shore.
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Experiment
A re-invention
nearly three years earlier.
Data incomplete.
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I think at 15, data incomplete is a very fair assessment. The gleams of the adult to come are there, but not quite in full view.
ReplyDeleteExactly, Rommy! I had worked very hard to lose my Texas drawl, which upset my mother terribly. There was no sports for girls, which disappointed my dad ( I was a pretty good basketball player). So, I had to become someone new, then add in puberty! LOL
DeleteYikes! Moving at that age is even harder than moving is in general.
ReplyDeleteI think especially as a girl!
DeleteThere are so many things we still need to know, to live, to learn again (and hope to forget) after we are fifteen, that your choice makes complete sense. I like the sharpness of it--like a teenager slamming a door: "I'm not ready yet!:
ReplyDeleteSounds like it was a really scary time for you. As someone who moved house (on average) every 3 years, I can totally understand the isolation you must have felt. No internet alliance to back us up and advise us in those days XXX
ReplyDeleteGina, you totally get it! I, too, have moved an average of revert three years, but we always stayed fairly close to family. This was the first interstate move. When we would come back to visit relatives in Texas, they would call me a Yankee. All because I made a deliberate attempt to lose my southern accent to better fit in. I felt like I was moving on, but my mom and dad were stuck in the past. They eventually moved back to Texas. I never did.
DeleteMoves are always so traumatic aren't they? You can't uproot a flower without leaving some of its soil behind.
ReplyDeleteSo, true, Ben, especially at an early age. I had already moved so many times already, but this was so march further away. but I have learned a lot from each place I was planted.
DeleteYour image is just striking Sharon--and I think relocating at that age is probably one of the most difficult adjustments(short of losing parents) that an adolescent could have to deal with. I have lived in Texas--but especially the way things are now, I have to say, this may have been a blessing in disguise.
ReplyDeleteBlessing in disguise is quite right, hedge witch. I have been ever so glad after the fact.
DeleteLove your phyc Art ! and your to the point prose! Perfect! You don't appear to be saucy!
ReplyDeletexDebi
Thanks, Debi!
ReplyDeleteIt must have been very hard Sharon!
ReplyDeleteIt taught me much!
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