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“Life has no obligation to make sense, and the beauty of it is that it rarely does, but if you can get lost in the sweet spot in between, you may find some answers, too - or at least create some good stories.”

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“So I decided I would do everything my Dad had not, everything I would need to have the perspective and point of view I felt he lacked, even if it meant getting lost, hurt, in trouble, or ending up somewhere I could never have dreamed of.”

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“The words on that hazy, pixelated monitor were burned into my brain. Obviously not exactly what he'd intended to say, but I understood well enough what he was suggesting. I’d just attempted the weakest bribe of all time to a post-Soviet officer.”

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“The fantasy of living these experiences was one thing, but having the self-confidence to head out into the world and chase them, to take a great leap into the unknown and trust that the world would catch me, was another thing altogether.”

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“Thousands of miles from all the people closest to me, this stranger became my mother, my father, and my family attending to me like a lost child in her village, with the ease and comfort a grandmother would show to her loved ones. All without us exchanging a single word.”

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“The Nepali drivers can’t be allowed to fall asleep, I get how important that is, but there has got to be a better way to stay awake than blasting every single R. Kelly and Justin Bieber music video in existence overnight for 12 hours, I shit you not. It was absolute torture.”

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“And on that day I turned thirty and I started to cry. I cried because all I was eating was a bowl of chicken and mustard on my birthday... 'Aren’t I supposed to have it all figured out by now!?”

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