(DOWNLOAD) "All the Ways We Say Goodbye (Essay)" by Victoria Sprow-Kelly ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: All the Ways We Say Goodbye (Essay)
- Author : Victoria Sprow-Kelly
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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When you grow up in New Jersey, in the dim, gray suburbs of New York, you grow up with the knowledge that one day you will have to leave. You don't think to be sorry about it, because that's how it is. After high school, if you don't want to go to Rutgers, and you aren't smart or lucky enough for Princeton, you will be sent out of state, where you still have a shot at a good school or a swim team scholarship. Once you are out, you can go anywhere. But if you do, it will be very hard to come back, even though there are things you will miss--the malls; your old elementary school; and summers at the Jersey Shore, the fudge whipped in huge vats and the birds wheeling over the boardwalk. Some of your more ambitious boyfriends will eventually find jobs in Manhattan. You know you could always marry one of them and live a glamorous few years in the city, but you know where that leads. When you have kids you will trade in your SoHo apartment for a condo in Hoboken, and eventually you will want a yard and you will buy a small house in Jersey City, and then a bigger one in Madison or Morris Plains, and you will end up just where you started--in some four-bedroom new-build just off the interstate, with nothing to look forward to but your book club and late night tv, and all that beautiful gothic promise of the city just out of reach.