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From our New Jersey Desk

1/16/2018

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I listen to WNYC everyday. Besides getting the news in English, I enjoy hearing the weather and what trains aren’t running on schedule.

One of today’s stories was New Jersey getting a new governor. New Jersey state news feels so familiar but also foreign.

When people ask, “Where in America are you from?”, I hesitate. I’m fairly certain they’re wanting to know where we moved to Freiburg from, but I don’t give them that answer. I usually respond, “I grew up in Nebraska, but my kids are from New Jersey.”

I don’t want to misrepresent myself as a Jersey girl. I do know how to pump my own gas. Nebraska and New Jersey are such different places, but, now, on governor #3, I feel at home in both.
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1/17/2018 06:29:33 am

I’m sure that’s true, Anne. I was writing to my friend Kathy in Minneapolis that Princeton was the only town your children knew as home and how different Princeton was from Freiburg, much less Nebraska to New Jersey. I guess you’ve been adjusting from one place to another for quite awhile!

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