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hello beautiful people. It's been a very long time since I posted anything. Originally I took a break from posting or interacting with others when I had dental surgery way back in April. Surgery didn't go as planned and healing was difficult. I actually wrote about it but never posted it. It felt very wordy and detailed and I figured nobody would be interested to read it.
Anyways, life swept me up and i feel as though I've been stuck in the rip current since. Around the time I had surgery my depression started getting bad again. I was in a really dark place. I'm beyond thankful that I have a therapist and psychiatrist who helped me through. I'm still struggling, but it gets a little better day by day. In between than and now I also ended up in the hospital after having a moderate allergic reaction. It's almost comical the amount of medical issues I have at only 21 years old. It was no fun to say the least, I'm just glad it wasn't worse than what it was. My mom was in the medical field so she caught onto it before it escalated into anaphylaxis or anything severe. I'm all better now, physically healed from all my medical drama.
On a completely different note, I'm officially moving! In 6-9 months lol. My mom and I are building a home in the Carolina's. It feels very bittersweet. I love New York city with all my heart, and I wouldn't trade growing up here for any place in the world. It has shaped me in more ways than I could ever encapsulate in writing. But as they say, priced out of paradise. New York will always be my home, but we can't afford to stay. The city has changed significantly since covid. Sometimes it doesn't even feel like the New York I know. I see videos from tourists or transplants and I think to myself, It looks like my New York, but it doesn't feel like my New York. We have a lot of family who also migrated south so we decided to join them. As much as letting go of the home we have here is hard were both excited. Were getting a home that's double the size of where we live now and will be half the price of what we sell our current place for.
I've lived in close quarters with my family since I was a baby. And compared to others our home was considered a large space in nyc. So now I'm going to have a huge bedroom all to myself and my own bathroom!! I'm so excited to decorate my new room with all my current trinkets that crowd my tiny room. I'm still in a bit of shook at how fast everything is moving and changing. I can't believe I sat down long enough to write this out. I'm not sure when ill post again, or what will have changed in the time in between.
But until then, take care of yourself.
with love, ally.
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Avery <3
Welcome back! Sorry to hear about all the health issues, glad you're healing up well! Growing up in NYC has always seemed like a magical thing to me as someone who goes there once-ish a year from a few states south to visit and sight see. It's interesting to hear your perspective. I hope the move goes smoothly- an old friend and mentor of mine actually also moved down to the carolinas recently. She seems to like it, and I've always said if there's a place I'd live in the south-south it'd probably be North Carolina, it's a beautiful state, at least the parts of it I've seen. I hope the transition is smooth too, I'm no stranger to homesickness, that's gotta be quite the contrast. Anyway, sorry if that's rambly, take care and welcome back!
Not rambly at all :) It was magical in a lot of ways, I've written ALOT about it. It's so crazy to me that just within nyc alone everyone experiences it so differently. My experience being from a upper lower class family in Brooklyn was wildly different than the wealthy kids from Manhattan. They went to the Hamptons or abroad during the summer and I went to coney island lol. I've been trying to remind myself that nyc isn't going anywhere. I can visit and maybe even come home one day if I marry rich lol.
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