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Shade meet Donna.

Eli is so cringey on religion she crosses into an innocent place. This is not something I am unfamiliar with growing up in poor rural Appalachia as a kid. While religion was not unknown to this extent, a lot of things were. You get state education boards who don't really care and kids who feel that disinterest. So you get a culture of almost tribal knowledge and an almost survivor's view of what's important. Government assistance - your air. Government food programs - your food and water. Housing is run-down, random, and the jobs scarce, sustenance-level, and hard.

Things outside that bubble can become fuzzy knowledge. You also get silly misplaced beliefs, like if some famous politician (pick your party) visited us all these factories and jobs would follow, and everything here would change...imagine that!

Thirty to forty years later...nothing much changes.

And these two think they think they can leave this place. A curse of false hopes and realities.

Description
Shade meet Donna.

Eli is so cringey on religion she crosses into an innocent place. This is not something I am unfamiliar with growing up in poor rural Appalachia as a kid. While religion was not unknown to this extent, a lot of things were. You get state education boards who don't really care and kids who feel that disinterest. So you get a culture of almost tribal knowledge and an almost survivor's view of what's important. Government assistance - your air. Government food programs - your food and water. Housing is run-down, random, and the jobs scarce, sustenance-level, and hard.

Things outside that bubble can become fuzzy knowledge. You also get silly misplaced beliefs, like if some famous politician (pick your party) visited us all these factories and jobs would follow, and everything here would change...imagine that!

Thirty to forty years later...nothing much changes.

And these two think they think they can leave this place. A curse of false hopes and realities.