Memoir

Aimee Goes West

From the middle school archives

“Vintage Vinyl Record Collection — An American Tail — Somewhere Out There Performed By Linda Ronstadt And James Ingram, MCA Records, Catalog MCA-52973, Country — US, 7-Inch 45 RPM Record, Released 1986” by France1978 is marked with CC BY-SA 2.0.

Last year, I moved to Oakland, California to live with my dad and future stepmother. I came from Norman, Oklahoma where I had lived all my life. My parents got divorced when I was four or five years old but both of my parents stayed in the same town. Then, in October of 1990 my dad moved to Oakland and my family made the decision that I would move…