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“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was – I was far away from home…. I wasn’t scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.”
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
I was recently looking at a photo of Ger and myself, from 2005. They were part of engagement photos that my aunt took for us in her backyard, nestled in the coulee where I grew up. I was 21, and he was 22. Both of us still in college, through I graduated in December that year and we were married less than a month later. We are both smiling and looking at each other. Continue reading →