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1. Don Romano 🍹 (thj@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2019 10:29:36 EDT Don Romano 🍹

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   Objectively speaking, my life is rapidly improving. I'm doing all the right things. Subjectively speaking, there is a sense that something is off.

   I come from a small Arctic town 1300 km north-northeast of the city I've lived in for the past decade.

   The older I get, the weirder it feels to be down here. I walk, talk and dress like a city person, but I also feel like I don't belong here, and that the culture of this city, albeit Norwegian, isn't my own.

   1. Don Romano 🍹 (thj@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2019 10:34:42 EDT Don Romano 🍹

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      2/2 Simultaneously, the world I have known is falling apart. My mother is gravely ill and likely to pass away. My father is also getting old, and so are all my uncles and aunts. Soon, there won't be anyone to visit back home. Only the places will be left.

      It saddens me that I'll probably never go on another car trip with my mother again. She's been admitted to a nursing home already.

      I don't feel at home here and the home I used to know is disappearing. It's fightening.