That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.

I liked how your teacher said we were 'kindred spirits'. I looked that up on m-w .com and it says that means we are related spirits, like family who is not blood family. I told Mamaw this and she said, 'Sometimes that's the best family of all.

It seems like there are so many homesick people in the world. It seems like so many of us live far away from where we were born.