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When returning home traps you in an outdated version of yourself

I moved back to my hometown after twenty years in the city and people keep treating me like the person I was in high school, not who I've become.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Familiar spaces can become prisons that refuse to acknowledge growth, forcing you to fight for recognition of who you've become.

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