Reflections
by Mack Paul
Rediscovering
RALEIGH
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You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time – back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.”
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-Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again
My family left Raleigh in the late 1960s. We pulled up stakes and moved to the Washington D.C. area. At the time, Raleigh was a small town where your family’s roots in the community still mattered, and membership at the Carolina Country Club mattered a lot. My parents had migrated to Raleigh from Eastern North Carolina. Although my father quickly established himself in political circles, he
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never dreamed my hometown would become my home.
