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Goodbye, Madison.
Library Mall at night in the snow. The snowflakes are illuminated by the street lamps and the trees get coated and somehow everything is silent and beautiful.
Farmer's Market mornings. Warm cheesy bread, apple cider, berries, squeaky cheese curds, tomatoes, coffees.
Rae and I jumping into the lake and causing a scene with our see-through white clothes. The terrace! The freshman house parties, the drunken make-outs, the clubhouse!, the Chadbourne bubble, early morning walks down the lakeshore path to class, midnight jaunts up and down State St. Timmy! Mark! Heidi! Bob! Amber! Janet! Lauren! Benji! Party in the Park! Erics! Nicole! Jason! Billy! Matt!!
Sodies, kisses on the corners, driving with the top down, dancing dancing dancing. The pavement I've walked over, cried on, fell on, skipped down so many times.
Here is where I brought my babies home. Their first smiles and giggles were here. I held them through those rough nights and loved them and learned what being a mom means. I've walked them through the parks and watched the flowers bloom, the trees turn, and the snow fall.
I fell in love here and I had my heart broken here. This city will always be the place where I loved, loved, loved that sad skinny boy and learned the hard way about playing for keeps. It's where Rob and I figured each other out and created our family.
This has been my home for a decade. Madison is in me, it's my home in every sense of the word.
I love you, Madison. Take care.
Library Mall at night in the snow. The snowflakes are illuminated by the street lamps and the trees get coated and somehow everything is silent and beautiful.
Farmer's Market mornings. Warm cheesy bread, apple cider, berries, squeaky cheese curds, tomatoes, coffees.
Rae and I jumping into the lake and causing a scene with our see-through white clothes. The terrace! The freshman house parties, the drunken make-outs, the clubhouse!, the Chadbourne bubble, early morning walks down the lakeshore path to class, midnight jaunts up and down State St. Timmy! Mark! Heidi! Bob! Amber! Janet! Lauren! Benji! Party in the Park! Erics! Nicole! Jason! Billy! Matt!!
Sodies, kisses on the corners, driving with the top down, dancing dancing dancing. The pavement I've walked over, cried on, fell on, skipped down so many times.
Here is where I brought my babies home. Their first smiles and giggles were here. I held them through those rough nights and loved them and learned what being a mom means. I've walked them through the parks and watched the flowers bloom, the trees turn, and the snow fall.
I fell in love here and I had my heart broken here. This city will always be the place where I loved, loved, loved that sad skinny boy and learned the hard way about playing for keeps. It's where Rob and I figured each other out and created our family.
This has been my home for a decade. Madison is in me, it's my home in every sense of the word.
I love you, Madison. Take care.