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How Two-Stepping Helped Me Fall for Texas and the Love of My Life

DATE POSTED:August 4, 2026
photo of honky tonk crowdDigital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. The ink was barely dry on my divorce decree when I arrived in Austin on May 1, 2021. I’d been offered a job at Texas Monthly, but I wasn’t sure if Texas would become home or just another stopover in my itinerant early adulthood, which had included nine moves in as many years. Twelve months in, the job was inspiring, but the city was not. I packed up again and relocated thirty miles north, to Georgetown, hoping that life on the periphery might do the trick. This felt less like moving to a place than getting the heck out of one I’d held at arm’s length.One night…

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