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Some people feel it's impossible that those kinds of places still exist, but I'm proud to say I live in one! One gas station, one grocery store with the aisles named after local streets (mine carries ketchup and the like, LOL), an elementary school, some churches, and lots of friendly people!
posted by
Tandra
on April 2, 2007 at 4:55 AM
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Julia
Somehow, I knew that you'd come to see your hometown in this way again. I think your inner self needed to purge itself of what had tainted it. I wish you well on your recovery of your feeling of innocence and love. God bless and thank you for leaving such a wonderful comment.
posted by
avant-garde
on March 29, 2007 at 3:00 PM
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Julia
We had such an address once in Belgium : when you mailed an evelope with "Tin Tin, Brussels" from anywhere in the world, it would always arrive. Tin Tin was a world famous comic strip.
Speaking of home, we are going to leave home soon, to go to another home in Africa.
Dirk
posted by
linter
on March 29, 2007 at 10:38 AM
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julia
Sounds like heaven on earth.......where is it?
posted by
TIMMYTALES
on March 28, 2007 at 8:08 PM
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Aw, that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! And I'm glad you're feeling more content.
posted by
Holy_Grail
on March 28, 2007 at 6:12 PM
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guess you really can go home again.... sounds nice. Enjoy it. : )
posted by
-blackcat
on March 28, 2007 at 5:52 PM
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Julia how wonderful since you have come back to do something so selfless
that you find yourself in such a place af peace and beauty.
posted by
Kabu
on March 28, 2007 at 5:37 PM
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Julia
Oh this post just warmed my heart so! I live in a small town not that small but you brought up a point I thought was great about mail. A few years my beautiful little step granddaughter wrote me a note. She just put my first name and the town and it came to me. I have kept it all these years. That is a place to live. Don't tell people about this wonderland they come from everywhere to be part of it. Thanks for making my day nice.
posted by
Justi
on March 28, 2007 at 1:11 PM
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Julia, it sounds like Heaven to me. Congratulations! MoonSpirit 
posted by
syzygy
on March 28, 2007 at 11:51 AM
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Maggie
I always thought I belonged to the milkman...
posted by
Offy
on March 28, 2007 at 7:06 AM
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Julia............
I think the milkman is Offy's daddy - she don't look a bit like me. hahaha
The place sounds lovely.
posted by
MaggieMae
on March 28, 2007 at 7:03 AM
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Hi Julia
I saw your comment on
TheDirector's post and I had to laugh. I don't know what planet she is from, her comments never seem to make sense to anyone! I think she is F*^king nuts! LOL Hey, enjoy your day!
posted by
RckyMtnActivist
on March 28, 2007 at 6:50 AM
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Julia
I don't know where you are at but it sounds like my little town. Like you I have come to realize (after many years) that this really is home. It's a great feeling isn't it!
Oh and we still have a milk man and you can leave his money payment in the milk box...it's safe!
posted by
Offy
on March 28, 2007 at 4:24 AM
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Julia.
Wonderful, Julia.
I am happy for you.
It sounds like a lovely place to live.
posted by
jacentaOld
on March 28, 2007 at 4:21 AM
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Hi Julia....this is great news. I know you were homesick for California....
Spring is my favorite time of year. My flowers are beginning to bloom, my grass is turning green and all my trees are beginning to leaf. Too bad we'll probably get hit with another couple of snowstorms before May, when it truly is Springtime in the Rockies. You live in a beautiful place too, I'm glad you are beginning to feel it's beauty and feel at home again!
posted by
RckyMtnActivist
on March 28, 2007 at 4:14 AM
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Julia
home is were you
feel at home...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 28, 2007 at 4:05 AM
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I guess you can go home again!
I brought you a smile
and a rose!
posted by
Whacky
on March 27, 2007 at 8:56 PM
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I felt the same when I lived in Kula on Maui.
posted by
Jemmie211
on March 27, 2007 at 7:13 PM
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Good for you Julia!
I have never really had a place that felt like home to me. I hope to find that someday.
posted by
bel_1965
on March 27, 2007 at 6:50 PM
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Julia
What a lovely and gentle piece. Yes, I know places like that. I grew up on the outskirts of a town --population 1,200-- and so loved it. When I went back 5 or 6 years ago, the town had bloomed into 24,000 people. I was absolutely amazed. How fortunate you are that your town is still YOUR town. Lovely work! Good to, 'meet' you! --Joy!Mary
posted by
FoliageGold
on March 27, 2007 at 5:12 PM
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posted by
star4sky5
on March 27, 2007 at 4:43 PM
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welcome home.
posted by
Amanda__
on March 27, 2007 at 2:15 PM
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Julia
Lovely description.
posted by
Dolls-43
on March 27, 2007 at 1:35 PM
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Julia
Took you a while but......Welcome home.
Glad you were able to see the beauty, savour the memories, and see the charm.
posted by
Troosha
on March 27, 2007 at 12:47 PM
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It's sounds like a beautiful place to be.
It's a stupid cliche, but true -- no matter where you go, there you are. And no matter where I've been, I've always wound up with some part of me still here, in my little home town, where I now live full time.
posted by
strat
on March 27, 2007 at 12:41 PM
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Julia,
I am so happy for you! I grew up in a small town at the base of Mt. Rainier. It was right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. Then we moved to another small town in a farming valley named after an enormous rock jetting out of the hillside covered in moss! It was priceless growing up in a small town. I also raised my boys in a small town on a culdesac. It was an ideal neighborhood community. I haven't put my Welcome Home sign out for over a decade now but have found a house I'm trying to buy. Hopefully I'll be 'home' again very soon. This was a heart warming post. Thank you for sharing your love with us.
posted by
roadscross
on March 27, 2007 at 12:38 PM
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Good for you, Julia
It sounds like a great feeling that you have and a great place to be.
posted by
TAPS.
on March 27, 2007 at 12:18 PM
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All the best and say Amen .
posted by
afzal50
on March 27, 2007 at 11:36 AM
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