This Is Us
Stop Snubbing the Suburbs
Some see a cultureless wasteland, but to me, it’s home
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7 min readNov 16, 2020
The summer before my senior year of college, I worked as an assistant video editor for my college’s communications department. My supervisor was a man with thinning red hair and a thick, red mustache. Despite being a devout vegetarian, he always had a pungent, meaty smell to him — like…
