![With my roommates Sally and Muffett many years ago. Happily, we are still close friends.](https://triciaroseburt.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SallyMuffetand-me-300x273.jpg)
Thirty years ago, on January 6, 1987, I hopped a plane, left my hometown of Tampa, and moved to New York. I had no job and I’d never met my roommates, but to me the risk was worth it — I wanted to do something exciting. I also wanted my long-distance boyfriend who lived in NYC to marry me and I thought proximity might move things along. [Read more…] about On Having an Epiphany