What would your life have been like if you had stayed in your hometown? Or what might your life have been like if you had left your hometown?
I ask because I thought very seriously about this "alternate history" on July 4th when I went back to my hometown for the day.
Would I have married a big Midwestern single mom who often dressed in over-sized Looney Tunes t-shirts and high-water sweatpants and chain-smokes?
Would I have ridden that horrible roller-coaster of manufacturing jobs that goes boom and bust (mostly bust)?
Would I have many of the same problems my friends from old neighborhood have? Drugs? Alcohol? Child-support payments? Kids I find out too late aren't biologically mine? Petty crime?