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Moving that often wears you down. Each time we packed the boxes, I left a version of myself behind, the kid who knew the shortcut through the Alberta snow, the one who could name every classmate in Oregon. By the time we reached Vancouver I felt scattered,like light bent through too many prisms. The houses changed. The people changed. But the sky never moved out. It was the one thing that didn't need a forwarding address.

Why it works: shows passion for astronomy by contrasting a life in constant motion with the constancy of the sky, using bent light through a prism as a metaphor for feeling scattered.
Trait to reveal: passion.

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