A measly twenty-five miles from Tufts, I have grown up in the town of Natick. My parents chose Natick for numerous reasons, but what I love about my hometown is its welcoming sense of community. Every year when I participate in Natick’s Fourth of July parade, I easily identify my friends, teammates and co-workers amongst the crowds cheering me on. When I help at the library, I work alongside the same librarians who read Cat in the Hat to me almost a decade earlier. However, the most essential aspect of living in Natick has been my church. Only a five-minute drive away, the church, in additional to its spiritual significance, has been the social and cultural hub for most of my life. There, our youth group has stuck together for the last seventeen