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This community member talks about what home should feel like.

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Transcript

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 You're listening to StoryHelix, intertwining
 stories past, present and not yet imagined
 
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 in Lane County, Oregon. What's
 up, earthlings? I'm Leah Velez and
 
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 I'll be your host. The stories that
 follow our raw footage. So let's open
 
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 up our our nuggets and give these
 community submitted stories a listen. 
 
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I've lived here  my entire life. I was born
 here. My family has lived in Eugene
 
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 ever since I could remember. So
 I think they chose this place because,
 
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 I don't know, it's a good
 place to be and it rains a lot.
 
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 I like the rain. There's a
 lot of trees and the air is
 
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 really clean and we don't have a
 lot of like overpopulation and it's not really
 
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 overpopulated and it's not like the cheapest
 place to live, but it's also not
 
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 the most expensive place to live.
 So I think that was a really big
 
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 factor for my family. But they've
 just always lived here, so. I struggled
 
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 a lot with my relationship with my
 mother after she got married and living with
 
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 her. Her house did not feel
 like home and I just didn't feel at
 
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 home in general. But living with
 my grandparents is also kind of a struggle,
 
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 just because our apartment is so small
 and we're just so close to each
 
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 other constantly. We get into arguments
 a lot and it's really hard to feel
 
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 at home when it's like 90% fighting and
 yelling, 10% love and affection. I
 
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 don't know, I feel like love-- I feel like home is somewhere where
 
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 you can be comfortable and like in
 your own space, you feel nice,
 
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 you're not surrounded by people who just
 want to yell at you. So No,
 
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 I don't think so. My life
 definitely has not been easy. My
 
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 Dad left when I was really young. He's been in prison my life
 
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 and my mom kind of just threw
 me away because I told her I didn't
 
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 want to live in a house with
 her and her husband because her husband is
 
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 literally abusive and gave me so much
 PTSD. My grandparents mostly raised me and
 
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 made me who I am as a
 person. I sort of had to develop
 
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 my morals on my own, because
 nobody around me really has morals that I
 
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 see as correct. Like, they're all
 biased in some way and none of us
 
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 really have a valid opinion, because
 opinions aren't facts. But life is hard
 
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 and experiencing shitty things just makes life
 life. Like you can't just live your
 
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 life without something bad happening to you
 at least once. Something bad always happens
 
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 to everyone. Everything that I've endured
 and had to put up with makes up
 
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 who I am as a person,
 makes up how I act towards others,
 
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 makes up how I react towards things
 other people do. Everything I've experienced just
 
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 makes me me. Thanks for listening. You can find us wherever you listen
 
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 to your podcasts. If you've got
 your own Lane County story to tell,
 
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 we'd love to hear it at StoryHelix Dot WordCrafters dot org.