I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... ("Afterward")