As I prepare to move away, I have been pondering how it will effect my life as I know it. We moved to Florida when I was 22. We moved away from the town that for all intent and purpose was my home town. I had gone to school there, and basically grew up there. I had a big network of family available within walking distance in most cases. I had the friends I had grown into adulthood with. School friends and work friends. I don't remember stressing over leaving them really. It was more about leaving my family. My parents, my sis and Memaw. 19 years later with my parents and my sis living within a 2 hour car ride, I am faced with a different set of emotions. We are all older now. Some of us (not I) have our feet planted very firmly. Chances are, my parents will not be following us to SC in under a year and my sis has her family and life in Miami. One of the reasons we chose SC, is because it is less then a day trip back to Florida. There is some comfort in that. I don...
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