This is Rumble Strip. I'm Erica Heilman. Today, episode four of what class are you?

Katrin Chana lives in the Upper Valley in Lyme, New Hampshire, which is right next to Hanover,

which is where Dartmouth College is. Katrin is a social worker, and currently she works as a therapist.

She grew up in the house where she still lives. In this show, we talk about

her childhood in Lyme and how that area has changed a lot in her lifetime. When I was growing up,

there were rich people. Like, I didn't think of myself as being a rich person. I thought we were the hippies.

You know, we were just like the weird people.

But I think that I definitely grew up as like, you know, with a very privileged childhood.

Wow.

You know what? Like I had riding lessons. Like I went to ballet lessons. Like I went to camp when I was in high school.

But when I was growing up here in Lyme, it was not a wealthy town.

It was more subsistence farming.

And there were a lot of people, I think, who really struggled just to make ends meet.

However, like the majority of people who I went to school with.

We're really struggling just, I think their families just to, you know, just to get by.

But we all lived together somehow.

Like we all, it was just a community.

But at some point, I think it was maybe high school, you start to recognize, oh, we have different options.

I can go to college and you can't.

I can get a car and you can't.

Like it was like I just, you start to see that you have different options and that if I start to talk too much about all the options that I just, you start to see that you have different options.

And if I start to talk too much about all the options that I have,

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