Woke this morning to gunfire.

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34. Beautiful is true.

I'm an NC native. I was born in Durham, NC and always grew up in RTP. Parents decided to up and move to Bahama in my teenage years (worst years to move out to the middle of nowhere) and that's how I know that area. I lived there for about 5 years before I got the hell out and moved right back to the RTP.

The racism is something I noticed lightly within RTP and I noticed it a bit more heavily the further you get away from that. I think it's because RTP is kind of like the Silicon Valley of the Carolina's, people are a lot better educated and cultured around those parts. But Bahama? Oh no.

I think I almost got in a fight with a deer once in Bahama. They're definitely not the peaceful critters we believed them to be. I was walking down a dark back road one night, angrily brooding in my young adult angst when I heard the sound of a large animal in the woods next to the road I was walking on. Angry, I decided to try and scare it by making some sort of fierce grunting noise at it. It didn't get scared of me, oh no... That deer made a much fiercer grunt and made a sound as if it were charging towards me.

I ran like hell and did not look back.