expatriot

is one who leaves to fling themself into the unknown, to take part of home and to transplant it in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom.

I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . . I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom.

is one who leaves not to forget home, but so that some day one might understand it.

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it.

expatriot, n.All

expatriot