The Importance of Leaving a Suburb

When Alberto's parents offered to sell us their second home in Cheadle we thought it was a great investment. I've never seen people happily living in a place so obviously dead. Two years we lived there, two years imprisoned in that beige, comfortable house with the man I loved Watching our relationship turn to sniping and snapping and bitter passive aggression. When he found out and it all ended I kind of hated myself for just how relieved I'd finally been able to leave that place. To get in my car and drive away from that gentle suburban nightmare. The single life. Footloose and sitting at home binging bad TV. But honestly I think I'm just too old now

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