> Mine starts at birth, in San Diego. [...]. I realized that California didn’t belong to me soon after moving out East. I was also born and raised in San Diego

> Mine starts at birth, in San Diego. [...]. I realized that California didn’t belong to me soon after moving out East. I was also born and raised in San Diego, but left ten years ago, and it feels weirder and weirder every time I go back. Meanwhile, everywhere I am in the world—Thailand, Kenya, Bulgaria, England, etc—I see California t-shirts or hear Tupac rapping about California on the radio. So I've also felt and wondered about the myth (legend?) of "California" over this time. :)