This is so beautiful!! I was not expecting this many feelings so soon after chortling and deciding that football from now on will forever be known as "shovies catchies"
My parents moved away from my hometown - a rural community of ~3,500 people in western Illinois - in 2002 after my youngest sister graduated high school. I didn’t go back until 2019 when we held my dad’s funeral there. I had many of the same feelings you did. It was so familiar and comforting to be there during the literal worst time. Even walking through the grocery store, which hadn’t changed a bit in nearly 20 years, was a joy. It made me really grateful to have grown up there, even as it hasn’t been home in a very long time.
I was fine until the last two paragraphs and now I'm just crying in my office and hoping no one sees, augh. This was so, so good.
crying in the office!! i'm happy you liked it💕
"imagine praying at the site of so much dry-humping". Incredible stuff.
when i THINK of what was happening in those dark carpeted corners!!
This is so beautiful!! I was not expecting this many feelings so soon after chortling and deciding that football from now on will forever be known as "shovies catchies"
Thank you! And it really is, shovies and catchies is ALL THEY'RE DOING
Oof. That one hit me right in the small-town queer heart ❤️
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My parents moved away from my hometown - a rural community of ~3,500 people in western Illinois - in 2002 after my youngest sister graduated high school. I didn’t go back until 2019 when we held my dad’s funeral there. I had many of the same feelings you did. It was so familiar and comforting to be there during the literal worst time. Even walking through the grocery store, which hadn’t changed a bit in nearly 20 years, was a joy. It made me really grateful to have grown up there, even as it hasn’t been home in a very long time.
OK I see you know!!💕
Bawlin on a Tuesday morn. 💗
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Lovely. I've never had a place like this, but I'm so, so, so happy you did and have.
Thank you!! 💕💕
I loved this one, Elfie. I love every one, but this made me teary with my morning coffee. Love you.
Love YOU!!
Beautiful story 🥰
I’d write more, except I’m crying!
thank you!!❤️❤️
So beautifully written and now I have something in my eyes...
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This piece was so lovely and brought such a wave of nostalgia to me. 💗
I'm so happy you liked it!! 💕
This was so beautiful 😭 fellow queer who grew up finding home in my friends' families. you captured this feeling so perfectly!! <3
I never realized as a kid that's what I was doing! That's exactly right!!💋💋