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Homesick for the Stars
This essay is about travel, wanderlust and our perennial need for discovery. I wrote this while staring at a glorious sunset.
As the golden hour sky gets swallowed into the borrowed moonlight, I try to find my way home.
But I’m beautifully, hopelessly lost.
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