I grew up here

I mean actually our family moved around a lot, we lived here for a while

We lived in Washington, D.C. for a while, too...

Honestly I try not to remember when we lived here

And then we moved to a mining base where my mum was an engineer

This was a relatively stable period of our family though

Of course the first house we lived in got demolished :(

I hung out with some... people growing up

Did spend some time in Oxford though

And for some reason we moved to Indianapolis?

The less said of this family vacation the better, tbh

I don’t remember very far back when I was a kid, but my parents say I was born on a spaceship

First time we went on a plane! Can’t believe my mum let me hold the stick.

Of course at school I met friends who grew up here but my parents didn’t like me hanging out with them :(

Anyway, after a while we moved to Japan

And for the first time, when we were in Japan, I got in to dancing. I was a bit awkward.

Now, when I was a bit older you were encouraged to do a gap year, so I spent a few months traveling as an archaeologist’s assistant

I loved archaeology so much I went and did another apprenticeship

But I wasn’t sure about archaeology. I wanted to learn about urban planning (that’s what we called it back then when I was growing up. You kids probably have some sort of numtot meme for it now!)

Anyway. A lot of my childhood wasn’t great. There was a pretty shitty time growing up on an army base and I have to tell you things didn’t look good for a while.

Come to think of it, there were a lot of traumatic moments of my life growing up on army bases. My parents were probably negligent. Once is excusable but this must have happened five, maybe nearly ten time...

Sometimes our parents tried to move somewhere and honestly the house just kept collapsing around us

And to this day, I’m sometimes afraid to be alone in the dark

As I got older and more mature though, I’d learn to create quiet safe spaces for myself and form deep bonds with people, even strangers. I went on a life-changing pilgrimage.

I’d retain my interest for archaeology, but something about the profession didn’t sit right with me anymore, and despite the field being exciting, it just started feeling... violent.

Thinking back on it, much of my life has been defined by just sheer survival through trauma.

Some places I lived I’ll never ever forget. My wife was living here when I met her.

I’ll also never forget my late father in law seeing where I lived in the Midwest, and showing him how I’d learned to hunt. He thought I was terrible at it!

Oh gosh I nearly forgot to tell you about the time I lived in this horrible rainy city working with a detective-

Anyway, I’ve grown up in a lot of places. Many more than I’ve shared here! I’ve had an amazing life and seen things I could only have dreamed of. I’m very lucky.

I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

Well, maybe for some luxury goods.

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