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Sarah Alvarez · Conflicting Feelings About Growing Up in the Midwest
February 3rd, 2012
Name:Geoffrey Taylor
Midwest Home: Sioux City, IA
New Home: Eddyville, OR
My knowledge of my hatred of and my love of the Midwest is informed by many years spent there.
My high school is now a vacant lot, where scabrous alley cats urinate in the dirt, and the cold wind blows old papers in the same spot where I had to study algebra. Yet my mind goes back to the room where Miss Edith Pollock taught me how to write.
I love Sioux City so much it hurts. I wish to hurt it back.
Would I move back to the Midwest? Not if they made me the governor of Iowa. Not for a million dollars in cash. Not at gunpoint. Not if I got to relive it all, and be a teenager again. But the memories of that place and time are precious.
