When people ask why I left the U.S., the answer is layered and complicated. It’s never just one thing. But the undercurrent of violence was part of it.
I’d be lying if I said the political divisiveness and increasing violence in the U.S. weren’t a part of my desire to live somewhere else — somewhere away. It wasn’t t…
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