When Your Home Becomes ‘Strong’
<p>Ten years ago, two bombs exploded on either side of the front door to my home. 281 people were injured, many lost their legs. 3 people lost their lives.</p>
<p>It was the Boston Marathon Bombing.</p>
<p>I suffered no tangible loss like so many people did. My blood stayed within me, though I think the way it flows through my heart might have changed. I had only the consequences of a shock that broke the spell of what home means to me. Ten years on, I can see it with a clarity I couldn’t back then.</p>
<p>I had been living in Boston for about a decade, studying as a student at Berklee College of Music, which is situated near the marathon finish line. I grew up outside of Boston. Boston was my home. We New Englanders, we call Boston “The Hub” because by way of our culture and our transit systems, its city streets represent the center of the wheel around which the rest of the world turns.</p>
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