Living abroad makes you question everything that you thought you knew or believed but also makes you more deeply convicted than you've ever been. It pushes you out of your comfort zone but into isolation. It builds you up and tears you down. It evokes feelings deeper than you've felt before but at the same time--numbness. It brings tears of joy and of sadness. It leads you to places you never thought you'd end up and to the place you always knew you belonged. It changes you and brings out your truest, ever-present self. It makes you love and hate America. It compels you to stay where you are forever and to run far, far away. It takes you from the deepest valley to the highest peak and back again in the matter of hours, minutes, seconds. It forces you to live in contradiction. It wears you out.
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