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Home is a Black Hole - Norco (2022)

Spoilers for Norco (2022) I moved around a lot as a kid- home becoming wherever I was in the moment with my family and my stuff. My father’s job, that being a service-member in the United States Army, meant we moved. The longest I’ve lived in a place was seven years- living on the island of  Oʻahu during the end of the second G.W. Bush administration and through half or so of the first Obama administration. The second longest was Georgia, though that was between two places- Columbus (again for my father’s work) and Atlanta, for school. Georgia State University. I still have dreams about being there, having moved away three years ago. My mental health went into serious decline, I had two psych ward stays, and decided that living with my parents in Missouri would be a more stable living environment then college dorms. I justify it to myself, then. I don’t tend to go back to places I previously lived, they live on in my head as some sort of memory, trapped in a dreamlike state, but I ...