Shannon: It really got catty, and it just started to seem vain and stupid to me.
They're the ones who've supported me from way back when, and they're still around.
It's pretty rural, and small enough that the people you've known since kindergarten are usually the people you keep in touch with all your life.
I mean, I have teachers from the third grade I still keep in contact with.
We're smack-dab between Lafayette and New Orleans.
It was so fast that it freaked me out.