My Entire City Was Sent Mystery Potatoes
glass bowl with instant mashed potatoesPhoto by Rachel Loughman on Unsplash. These marketing spuds meant more about us than we initially realized. My hometown city of Memphis is famous for Elvis, Beale Street, The Grizzlies, and barbecue. This place has given so much more to our country, but these are what the bulk of people travel here to experience. When my husband and I moved back after spending a few years in Arlington, VA, I didn’t expect to get a packet in the mail to remind me of one of the huge discrepancies between this city and the one we had just left.
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Football pitch with supporters under a foreboding skyFancy Crave on Unsplash. Homophobia during Pride Month is a foul look. My partner loves football. In fact, he lives and breathes it. No, not THAT kind of football, but the kind that he says I incorrectly label “soccer.” He was born into it; some of his first memories involve the sport. He wants to name our firstborn son after Steven Gerrard, the legendary former captain of Liverpool Football Club (it’s not gonna happen).
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