http://okaycity.com/2006/03/14/121/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:00:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://okaycity.com/2006/03/14/121/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Okay City » The Long Way Wed, 24 May 2006 05:42:04 +0000 http://okaycity.com/?p=121#comment-99 [...] I worried for a long time that returning to Oklahoma would mean that my adventures were at an end, that all my ways of convincing people that I was cool would dry up. And it may mean that; I have not checked in awhile. But what it has also done is forced me to slow down and really look at what is around me - at good friends who begged me not to move away because they loved me and wanted me around; at a family that somehow manages to love even my flaws, and a man who can turn an afternoon drive into a sacrament. [...] [...] I worried for a long time that returning to Oklahoma would mean that my adventures were at an end, that all my ways of convincing people that I was cool would dry up. And it may mean that; I have not checked in awhile. But what it has also done is forced me to slow down and really look at what is around me - at good friends who begged me not to move away because they loved me and wanted me around; at a family that somehow manages to love even my flaws, and a man who can turn an afternoon drive into a sacrament. [...]

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