Chapter 1: Great Aunt Elaine
There's a lot people don't tell you about growing up. Especially when you grow up in a small town. I remember the confusion about what the next step was. I had just graduated with my bachelors degree in communications that December from a mid-sized liberal arts college that was somewhere on a map that non-Hoosiers could name and didn't know what to do next. My job applications had received no response and more than anything I didn't want to move back in with my parents. I had leased an apartment from the university so my lease would end on Jan 2nd. This meant that either I was going to have to move back in with my folks, couch surf indefinitely or face the uncertainty of using my last bit of money for a deposit and first months rent in a new city with unknown job prospects. I love my family but I didn't want to move back to Middlebrook, Indiana. My sister was just shy of 13 and already had the teenage whine down. My brother was 16. A theater geek, boy scout, and jo...