Columnist Alli Harvey spent some time living in Reno. Now she returns to a different place as a different person.
FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2016 file photo, pedestrians pass beneath the famous Reno arch as traffic passes on Virginia Street in downtown Reno , Nev. A friend — I thought — locked eyes with me from across the circle of us congregated together at the party as he delivered this message. I was so stunned I didn’t know what to say. I appreciated that it was clever — he was referencing Reno , Nevada , aka “the biggest little city” — but it was also an ominous warning.
I biked, hiked, ran, farmed and floated my way across Reno. I quickly made friends through work, and loved spending time with my boyfriend and his daughter. On weekends, we might drive to hike up nearby Mount Rose, in the wilderness that shares the same name and is visible from downtown. Maybe we’d go hang out on the beach at iconic Lake Tahoe.
Eventually we ended up in Alaska, because that’s a hard opportunity to refuse. But Nevada felt like home, too. I felt like a stranger in a place I’d once lived. I missed it, even while I was there. I spent some time trying to reckon my wonderful memories of a place with its reality, and to find a place for my love for Reno to live in my memory, versus in the present. I tried, but never quite got there.
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