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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I graduated from high school in 1995. The community I grew up in was incredibly diverse. It was a decent sized city (100k+) and we had about 3,000 students the year I graduated.

    That summer, we went to rural Idaho for a family reunion. It was probably the first time in my life that I visited a place that was exclusively white. I’m a white dude myself, but like I said, grew up in a diverse community.

    The lack of diversity was a giant culture shock to me. I was in a small community with a population that was about half the size of the school I had just graduated from.