Home Is Not Always Sweet

But I had to redefine what home meant before I could find it or make it real.

Andrea Aikin
Middle-Pause
Published in
6 min readAug 15, 2020

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Where I came from “home” meant the place where I was criticized and put down regularly, while at the same time being held up in public as an example to others of what they should be striving for. I suspect the very confusion and contradiction is what ultimately saved me.

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