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Thank you, Nia. I feel similarly about Kentucky. Folks ask why we don’t leave, and you’ve captured beautifully why we don’t and don’t want to.

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Mar 17, 2021Liked by Antonia Malchik

Moving around feels pretty natural to me. We lived in 3 different states in my childhood, and I've lived in a couple more as an adult. My mom and both her parents were Army brats.

My wife is an immigrant -- having left her homeland to be with me. She, her brother, their father, and his father were all born in the same house. But it was in four different countries over that time period, which is a different kind of movement.

The Whitefish I lived in from 1978 to 1981 seems pretty much gone. Watersheds are still there, of course, but the human environment shifts in fits and starts.

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I'm so in to this documentary series "Can't Get You Out of My Head" that you recommended -- it's kind of mesmerizing and dread-full at once. I remember a million years ago watching "Brazil" at a movie theater in Chapel Hill and coming out of the movie and into an alley and feeling similarly disoriented both physically and emotionally.

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I can't read the quote from the video without thinking of this film: https://grasshopperfilm.com/film/behemoth/

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