In a lot of ways, BN is very much a projection story. I started writing it when I started college, which was new and exciting but also scary. Going back through it now (notably, I started it...right around when I went to Washington DC, which was my first major trip without my parents; I'd been at the same job for a couple of years, so I was a little more secure, and then a month later I'd get moved to another site, with all the upheaval that entailed), I can see what things I was working through; as I've revised it, I've added, changed, and taken out different things.
( this got long )