To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it. (Kathleen Norris)

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

Kathleen Norris

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