Group-Think
You Are Not Where You’re From
Myshel loves to write. Here’s another snippet from her journal. It’s her looking back on herself during what turned out to be her devastating college years.
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I come from a town named Los Banos. It’s a farm town, dairy mostly. I have great friends from LB. My entire Portuguese family settled there and worked the farms and the fields. I love my town.
But I spend my college years denying its existence. In the Mexican restaurant where I wait tables the “Los Banos” sign hangs over the bathrooms. I don’t want to hail from the bathrooms. I find myself hiding my town and my family from my friends. ...
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