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Bye-bye Worcester.

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Though I've been in Chicago for over a month, it's still not quite home. Not the way Worcester is... was... However that will change. But before it does, I have to pay the town that was my home for 7 years its proper respects. So I wrote this homage to Worcester to get it out of my system... There will be a lot I will miss about Worcester. After seven years of living there I had grown familiar with the city. I developed a comfort level that is generally reserved for those places that you call home. That was probably the hardest tie to sever. The fact that I was leaving the place that I called home permanently. There are many things to miss, but my most recent abode would be tops among those I would miss most. This, my home for the last 3+ years, was the Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary. I’ll miss shoveling snow and operating the snow blower, mowing lawns, hiking the trails and working with the volunteers, the bicycle rides to and from Clark, cooking a nice meal or brewing