last night i was thinking a lot about the prairie. a girl i work with just moved to calgary from edmonton but grew up in kelowna. we talked about how people always tend to go back to where they came from. not everyone, but most people. she can't imagine settling down anywhere other than kelowna and i know that eventually, probably when i'm a lot older and have forgotten how passionately i fought to get away when i was 18, i'll go back to alberta. i have a prairie voice and i still find a huge stretch of farmland and an endless horizon more beautiful than any ocean or mountain range. i don't know why i think about this. maybe because i miss all of that, everything i had last summer. boohoo, i don't need to be a baby. but i just want to be. the good news is that my buddies here are cool and i have one of the best tans i've ever had in my life. all that weeding is good for something. so what if i look like wrinklyleatherskin when i'm 35? at least i'll look hot now.
really, come visit me. this house is too big for just the five of us and i will take you for drives to the beach in the focus - we can roll the windows down and turn the music up. i might even dance for you.
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Does Taryn stand for Amazing? I think it does.
I personally would never settle down in Quesnel. I love my house, but eventually that will be sold, and I'll have absolutely no reason to come back here because my parents will move too. I'm perfectly ok with this. I love victoria. Maybe someplace else will catch my eye though.
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