"Armpit" isn't quite as strong as it should be to describe my hometown. More like "Buckle of the Biblebelt" or "Taint of the South." Actually, my hometown is a very quiet suburb of a larger town in TN where I go to college. Everyone knows everyone here, and so it's a very conservative, gossipy kind of town. Overall it's a nice place to grow up, but also a nice place to leave once you decide to become even slightly open-minded

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
-John Keats