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I lurked your website and skimmed through/read some poems, you're good. Real good. You look and sound like a poet, particularly in your picture of you reciting, haha.
And woah.
We seem to have a shitload in common:
-My Dad was a naval officer (though by the time I was born he was long out)
-Both raised Catholic in an upper class family (still being raised in my case, two years to go!)
-Distaste in religion but turning to an alternative for the WRONG reasons
-Been in and out of the south (AL and GA in my case)
-Slavic descent (Not 100% in your case but you mentioned your Mom being Russian Orthodox)
Of course the most prominent dissimilarity is that you're at the place currently I hope to be when I leave my home down South: New York City. And I've always had the premonition (which I try not to not let it get to me nowadays) of being the young starving writer in the city, which you seem to pretty much be at.
Plus I see you hiking, too. I can tell you I haven't never achieved a more liberating feeling than being lost in the Appalachian Trail (I used to go to a reform school in dumbfuck North GA and the little people there were some of the most ignorant).
Great minds think alike. Cool story bro (and I mean that)
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