The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.
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