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Coming home to a town that kept your old self

People come back to Scranton for a reason: a father who had a stroke, a mother alone in the house in Dunmore, a divorce that made the city rent impossible. The town remembers who you were at eighteen and expects you to still be that person, and the friends who stayed have twenty years of shared life you missed. The ones who never left feel it differently, watching the valley empty of their own age group while they hold down jobs at the hospitals, the warehouses along the interstate and the schools. Winters are long, the bars are where people talk, and a lot of men here have never once said the word depression out loud.