Steve Hagerty: The last place you are someone’s child

I have lived in Evanston for 27 years. That is longer than I have lived anywhere. Longer than Baltimore, Syracuse, or Washington D.C. Longer than Attleboro, Massachusetts, where I spent the first eighteen years of my life. Yet for much of my adulthood, whenever someone asked where I was from, I answered without hesitation — “Attleboro.” This always struck me as a little strange. After all, I hadn’t lived there in decades. The schools had changed. Businesses had come and gone. Friends had moved away. My life was somewhere else. Yet it never occurred to me to answer differently. Then, so

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