Making this town my home, making its people my family After my second day of law school orientation, I collapsed on my air mattress, holding my fuzzy cat close and weeping, wondering what I had gotten myself into. I felt overwhelmed by the prospect of starting law school, angry at a neighbor who had registered an unreasonable noise complaint against me, frustrated by my inability to find much of anything familiar in Durham, and depressed about the separation between me and the people I lov...

Making this town my home, making its people my family After my second day of law school orientation, I collapsed on my air mattress, holding my fuzzy cat close and weeping, wondering what I had gotten myself into. I felt overwhelmed by the prospect of starting law school, angry at a neighbor who had registered an unreasonable noise complaint against me, frustrated by my inability to find much of anything familiar in Durham, and depressed about the separation between me and the people I lov...