Finding Ourselves in Iowa
What I learned from “an utter divorce from reality”
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16 min readMar 12, 2019
We were a group of friends from virtually every stage of young adult life.
My long-haired college-aged brother, Mikey, took off from his summer job test-driving lawn mowers for this bike ride. My post-college friend Kyle, whom I met while working in Glacier National Park, was trying to get into film school…