Massachusetts Memories

I’m not from Massachusetts, but I'm also not not from Massachusetts. I was moved back and forth between there and my actual hometown of Miami throughout my childhood and adolescence. I then stayed in the area for the first years of my adulthood. I have been shaped by my time there, in more ways than one. For the many years that I've been gone, I've had limited access to my memories of that place, of those chapters. I have jokingly referred to the missing stories as "deleted files," which is not entirely accurate. They're there; I just haven't wanted to look at them. In recent months, I've looked. While the major statements about these memories will be presented in a different body of work, I'm sharing some of them here. Some are benign; others, less so. But they're all mine.

Enjoy.

Buick Audra

Color photo of a 1940s deco vanity with a big round mirror in the middle. The surface of the mirror is covered in photos and the surfaces of the vanity are covered with objects, from make-up to other junk.