Milestone
A milestone unnoticed by me occurred earlier in the summer. It was in late June by my calculation. I only just realized its passing. And you'd have thought I'd have noticed it.
I've now lived more than half my life in Maryland.
It'll be exactly 26 years tomorrow. It's weird. I fancy myself someone from the Great White North. Born in New Jersey, a boy in Massachusetts, growing up in Michigan. I still feel like I'm from Michigan. Yet I've now lived longer south of the Mason-Dixon than north.
What's weirder is that no matter how long I live in Maryland, I can never be a native Marylander. Not born here, not a native. Makes sense to me. But does that make me a New Jersey native even though I only lived there the first month of my life? God I hope not. Native New Jerseyian.
I could never bring myself to say that.
K-
You could say your living in exile from New Jersey and the state of Maryland has taken you in. I don't know. That doesn't look as funny in type as it sounds in my head.
No, it sounds funny in type, too. But to be an exile from New Jersey... what's that say about me? I'm so bad that even Jersey won't take me? Ha! LOL.
K-
You could say you are in the Witness Protection Program... That would make more sense being from New Jersey than being in exile! :::ducking:::