"Hey, are you from Oklahoma?"
"Uh, no. I'm from Vermont"
"Oh, uh, I live 20 min from OU and I just wondered. How'd you get the
shirt?"
"My dad went there (the "shhhaa" noise was silent, but
implied)."
"Oh, well, so'd mine. Boomer Sooner."
Thursday, July 27, 2006
The Part Where I Slowly Begin To Think Again Of Home
Today I was snapped momentarily out of my crunchy granola artsy summer world by a kid at the dining hall wearing a University of Oklahoma t shirt. I approached him like something from a world I no longer knew, a world where all the Route 44 Sonic drinks on earth couldn't atone for the SUV's, W stickers, and suburban sprawl.
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How did a good Sooner family end up in Vermont?????
Yea!
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