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susandennisWhen I was about 15, I got to go to a special six week program at Wake Forest College (pre-University days). It was for kids interested in speech and drama. I don't remember being interested in either of those things and I have no recollection of how or why I got to go.
But, it was the start of my life in lots of ways. I lived in a dorm with kids from all over North Carolina and learned about lives very different from mine. I kept up with a few of those kids in one way or another long after that summer ended.
One of them was a real bff. She was the daughter of a Baptist preacher in a tiny tiny town in Eastern, NC. Until I left for college several years later, she and I spent hours on Greyhound busses between my home in Winston-Salem and hers in Vass. It a huge study in contrasts that served us both well.
Vass was a tiny town in a county of tiny towns. I don't think the county seat had more than 3,000 residents and Vass had fewer than a thousand.
I've had Vass on the brain this week because it's at the center of that power outage. I cannot imagine how horrible that would be - your close neighbors are not very close.
My friend is now old like me and long gone from Vass as is her small family. But I can imagine what life is like there today and what it's like to be sabatoged. Ugh.
But, it was the start of my life in lots of ways. I lived in a dorm with kids from all over North Carolina and learned about lives very different from mine. I kept up with a few of those kids in one way or another long after that summer ended.
One of them was a real bff. She was the daughter of a Baptist preacher in a tiny tiny town in Eastern, NC. Until I left for college several years later, she and I spent hours on Greyhound busses between my home in Winston-Salem and hers in Vass. It a huge study in contrasts that served us both well.
Vass was a tiny town in a county of tiny towns. I don't think the county seat had more than 3,000 residents and Vass had fewer than a thousand.
I've had Vass on the brain this week because it's at the center of that power outage. I cannot imagine how horrible that would be - your close neighbors are not very close.
My friend is now old like me and long gone from Vass as is her small family. But I can imagine what life is like there today and what it's like to be sabatoged. Ugh.