When Did Texas Stop Being Home? (Drafting/Processing)

When I went out of state for college, I told myself and everyone else that I needed to be exposed to new settings when I had the most freedom to receive them. I loved my hometown (and even had ambitions of helping it with the demographic frisson looming on its horizon), but I intuitively knew that it would be better to leave while I could and come back later than to get stranded and resentful.

( Starts strong, ends weak if I'm honest... )