My original Repurposed essay describes how my perspective on Pentwater, Michigan, changed as I became less of a tourist and more of a local when I moved there the summer before I went off to college. As I learned more about the close-knit town that I idealized, I began to see its flaws and my feelings about the town started to change. In my repurposed project, I tried to investigate why this place was so great at first by describing how I experienced the town while growing up. After it was pointed out that I was describing the place with a sense of nostalgia as I was visiting it, I decided to investigate this abnormality. Nostalgia is usually something that someone experiences in retrospect, so I decided to look into what about my “normal” life created the urge in me to idealize this small town. I looked at the books that I read, the movies that I watched, and the music that I listened to in order to figure out where my fantasy about Pentwater was coming from. These media sources also provided for some unconventional research for my essay. I started to realize that I wanted Pentwater to be the place where I would find myself, or find true love, or find where I belonged like the characters did when they traveled to small towns. Like many of the characters that I read about, I too wanted to find myself shedding my old life and finding a new, more exciting one. In my final revision I decided to see what was it about me that created this yearning for something more, something that I thought this town would provide.