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KalWest's avatar

Are you a long way from home?

Asked by KalWest (1389points) March 25th, 2009

“Sometimes I feel
Like a motherless child
A long way from home”

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27 Answers

AstroChuck's avatar

Is eight miles far?

marinelife's avatar

I am a lonely little petunia in the onion patch that is the Bible belt.

jbfletcherfan's avatar

Nope. Just 6 miles.

Bagardbilla's avatar

Only about halfway around the world…
but sometimes it feels like a world away!

A_Beaverhausen's avatar

3hours. i hate michigan..

Darwin's avatar

I suppose so since home as such no longer exists. The big house has been sold, the furniture has been given away, and I don’t really see my parents or my siblings often. So “home” for me is gone.

And I am in essence a motherless child because dementia has taken her away from me.

OTOH, home for my kids still exists and with any luck will continue to do so for many years.

fireside's avatar

I am home.

Bluefreedom's avatar

I’m home right now but I’m a long way from normal.

Les's avatar

1000 miles. It stinks.

KalWest's avatar

@Bluefreedom

Ditto…. but then normal is sooooooo boring ;-)

Bluefreedom's avatar

@KalWest. Yeah, that’s very true. It is fun to be different or at least moderately unpredictable. =)

Darwin's avatar

What is “normal”?

Dansedescygnes's avatar

I am home. But next year I’ll be living at UCLA.

jbfletcherfan's avatar

@Darwin I’m sorry about your mother. Having her…& NOT having her must be hell.

essieness's avatar

Physically, no. Mentally, yes.

saranwrapper's avatar

I just moved back home. I’m loving it. Long Beach is the best.

chelseababyy's avatar

Yep. I’m from Jersey, and I live in Colorado. Not as far from home as when I lived in the Caymans, or SoCal, but still far :O

KalWest's avatar

@Darwin
Sorry about your mom

VzzBzz's avatar

I have a few “homes” I carry inside me.

KalWest's avatar

@VzzBzz

That’s good. I’m jealous…. happy for you—- but jealous

KalWest's avatar

@Dansedescygnes

You’ll be in my neck of the woods…

Nially_Bob's avatar

I am approximately 450 miles away from where I was raised as a child and I am home.

robmandu's avatar

Eight hundred and ten miles right now.

And I’m practically burning down the Internet running videochat with the family at home.

Dansedescygnes's avatar

@KalWest

Awesome. I love LA.

NaturalMineralWater's avatar

I’m about 6,000 miles from home. Boo.

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