Episode 79: I changed schools eight times growing up and my third grade best friend is in every one of my yearbooks
Submitted by Shay — Albuquerque, New Mexico. 41. My mom was a travel nurse, which means a thirteen-week contract, then another one, and every summer, sometimes every Christmas, a U-Haul trailer hitched to the back of the Corolla. Tucson, Amarillo, Tulsa, Boise, Lubbock, Spokane, Reno, and then Albuquerque, which is where she finally stopped and where I still live. Eight schools between third grade and graduation. I got good at being new. I got good at the first-day walk, the tardy slip from the front office, the teacher saying "everybody, this is Shay" to a room that had already picked its…
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