I grew up in a small Texas town. Actually, it's not so small anymore. Silicon Valley essentially relocated to the area, bringing with it skyrocketing home prices, endless development, and tech bro's in boat shoes instead of sweaters.
But when I was younger, it was a smallish town - think a single high school kind of small.
I could count on one hand the number of Arabs that lived in a 20 square mile radius. I was the only Palestinian in my school.
And I felt that singularity deeply. Even when I didn't have words for it, my bones shook with it and my teen years began to wrap around it like a macrophage pulling that feeling into itself.
