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Rememer back in '17 when Nazis came to Gainesville, FL, i.e. my hometown? A few of them attempted murder at the time, and the last of the criminals just got sent to jail for it.
Sure, it would have been better if the little shits had been too afraid to come in the first place, but gift horses.
I'm a little surprised at how proprietary I still feel about Gainesville. I haven't lived there in over thirty years. It isn't the kind of place where people with much ambition can live for long, unless you land a U of F faculty gig first as my dad did. But I have fond memories of the place, that slightly hippy and more-than-slightly goofy college town where being a geek was OK, public schools were better than I then realized, and the sunlight, heat, and humidity seemed grindingly relentless. I even miss some of the bugs, as long as they're not on me.
Sure, it would have been better if the little shits had been too afraid to come in the first place, but gift horses.
I'm a little surprised at how proprietary I still feel about Gainesville. I haven't lived there in over thirty years. It isn't the kind of place where people with much ambition can live for long, unless you land a U of F faculty gig first as my dad did. But I have fond memories of the place, that slightly hippy and more-than-slightly goofy college town where being a geek was OK, public schools were better than I then realized, and the sunlight, heat, and humidity seemed grindingly relentless. I even miss some of the bugs, as long as they're not on me.
