I just moved to the east coast after living in Austin for 6 years (and in the hill country just outside Austin for my whole life before that). As I was preparing to move, I mentioned my plans to a stranger in a store and he stopped what he was doing to stare at me.

AustinBro started out in Jester, then moved north of campus to a big dumpy house with some of his buds (a BroManse, if you will), but now he's seriously got his eye on those new condos on South Lamar.

Hey, it sounds like we have the same mom, because she'd say the same shit to me. I'm sorry for what you've been through. It's so hard when it's your mom that's the abusive one, because people either think you're exaggerating or don't believe you at all. And you're right, I wrote this when I was feeling very low, there…