Unconsciously, during those vagabond years, we were on the lookout for home. I have spent stretches of my professional life in the places you would expect-New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., all cities that I revere, but not places we chose to settle. In our married life, we have lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts Cairo, Egypt Quitman, Texas Durham, North Carolina Nashville and Atlanta-all desirable places with much to recommend. She was also on the run, from the racism and suffocating conformity of Mobile, Alabama. I grew up in Texas, in Abilene and Dallas, but as soon as the gate opened I fled the sterile culture, the retrograde politics, the absence of natural beauty. You may not understand the difference until you’ve found the city or the town or the patch of countryside that sounds a distinct internal chord. A person can live in many places but can settle in only one.
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