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13 The worst and best thing about growing up in a small town is the same thing — nobody forgets who you were, which means you spend your 20s trying to escape the version of yourself that 600 people cemented when you were 14, and your 40s realizing that version might have been the most honest one

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Christian Kelly @ Silicon Canals 1 place · today 18:00 EDT

The worst and best thing about growing up in a small town is the same thing — nobody forgets who you were, which means you spend your 20s trying to escape the version of yourself that 600 people cemented when you were 14, and your 40s realizing that version might have been the most honest one

After decades of carefully curating a cosmopolitan persona in London, I discovered that the awkward, overthinking teenager my hometown of 600 people still remembers might be the only authentic version of myself I've ever known.

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