Hillbilly Elegy

because some Harvard psychologist says
so but because I felt it. Consider my life
before I moved in with Mamaw. In the
middle of third grade, we left
Middletown and my grandparents to live
in Preble County with Bob; at the end of
fourth grade, we left Preble County to
live in a Middletown duplex on the 200
block of McKinley Street; at the end of
fifth grade, we left the 200 block of
McKinley Street to move to the 300
block of McKinley Street, and by that
time Chip was a regular in our home,
though he never lived with us; at the end
of sixth grade, we remained on the 300
block of McKinley Street, but Chip had
been replaced by Steve (and there were