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For me, it happened back in 3rd grade. I was 9 at the time.

I went to school in a tightly knit small town. Everyone in the neighborhoods knew each other. Everyone in the school knew each other. So it was definitely super noticeable whenever someone new moved in.

One day, in the middle of class, the teacher announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, today there will be a new student joining you all!" And everyone in the class got excited, since a new student was a rather rare occurrence. "New student?" Several kids in the class cried, excited.

Then the new kid walked in. Though everyone else seemed excited to meet him, I noticed something off about this kid from the get-go. He had this dead look in his eyes, unusual for a kid our age, and though he was slow moving, he looked strong, like he could strike at any minute.

At first I thought I was being too cynical.

But over the past few days, kids in our class screamed and appeared hurt, and at the scene it was always just them and the new student nearby.

Like for example, he stabbed a girl's hand with scissors, hurting it, and then told her to not tell anyone or he'd kill her whole family. Everyone was too scared to tell the teacher.

Our classroom was always happy and optimistic, but this kid made the entire class super terrified and gloomy.

One day, the teacher told me and him to go into the classroom closet, where two kids at a time would practice with vocabulary word flash cards for 5 to 10 minutes. At first, he seemed to play along, but then took out a huge kitchen knife from his backpack. He tried to stab me, but I just barely stopped his hands. I started to scream. "Miss! Miss! Help! Help! Somebody! Anybody!"

And from there, he was suspended from our school, and sent to juvenile detention center.

I was hoping my premonition about him was wrong and that he'd be a cool kid...but man, I was right as fuck.

I've had struggles with a break up. I'm not normally a religious person, but I tried to pray for an answer or for help. The very next day, I found out my ex had moved back to town and worked near me. A few days later, I ran into her and the conversation I had gave me the closure I needed.
I took that as an answer, and I started moving on. I started dating someone new, and it lasted 6 months. It ended, and I didn't try dating right away.
Anyway, the point I'm getting at is, that the ex I broke up with originally started to creep back into my life, suspectingly stalking my social media, and I recently ran into her. She looked at me with what my friends dubbed as, 'I miss you eyes' and she didn't take her eyes off me until I looked back at her.
The ball is 100% in her court, and I debated the last few days what all that meant. Last night, I prayed again for help and to understand. This morning, I woke up to 3 answers on a question I asked on here 2 months ago confirming my theory of what is going on, and I heard from two different people that they think she is slowly changing her mind and will reach out again
Is this an answer to a prayer or just a coincidence?

This is for people who live in the United States. Did you grow up and live most (or all) of your life in the same place, or did you move to someplace different? If you moved, did you stay in the new place, keep moving around, or come back to your home state/town? Are you happy where you are, or do you want to move to (or back to) somewhere else?

I grew up in one of the insular states, and moved to another insular state. I wanted to leave my home state since I was 14 and have no plan to return there as I am happy where I am now.