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[gryphonwing]

I want to write about this, but not publicly; increasingly, this is what I use livejournal for, if anything. Facebook is too public, tumblr is too contentious, and I've never been much good at keeping a journal. I think I process externally a lot, with dear friends, and livejournal isn't a big part of that anymore. It's not just because the

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[wcg]

Yeah, I hear ya.

I remember visiting the neighborhood I grew up in as an adult, and being struck by how much I would not want my kids to live there.

[7leaguebootdisk]

I grew up in a nice middle class suburb in California, and we had murders, suicide, child abuse, what have you. Things are better, I think, but they were never perfect anywhere, and worse than now, in general.

[gement]

"[T]he lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." - A.C. Doyle as Holmes, The Copper Beeches

Big places if you disappear your neighbors maybe don't notice. Little places, they probably knew all about it but didn't do anything.