ext_109142 ([identity profile] aryanhwy.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] kareina 2013-07-11 08:31 am (UTC)

FB is always asking me for my hometown, too. I recently picked the "I don't have one" option and hope it too stops bothering me. I only lived in two cities before moving off to college, but we moved when I was 10: Waukesha is not my "home-town" in the sense that I have almost no remaining connections with anyone there. Marshfield isn't my "home-town" because I didn't grow up there. I was already pretty well formed by the time I was 10, and Marshfield never felt like "home", just a place we were biding time.

I often wonder what Gwen will grow up feeling, having been born in Amsterdam but moving away 19 days later, being a US citizen without ever living in the US, having the formative years of her early childhood in Germany...What will she identify as?

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