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Take a bus, take a train, take your car, just choose a mode of transport that takes you on a journey you have never been before.

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Summer days at the equator of Mars get hot, but never too hot. It was like heaven, that weather.

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“Thank you for your email. I am out of the office until the end of Sukkot because as far as management is concerned, I am very, very, very Jewish.”

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I wonder about all of the things she did not do because she was waiting for someone to answer to, waiting for something to make it all worth it. She told me about one party; there must have been hundreds of others.

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Use the Internet and watch it become even more amazing than it already is. Used together with a little improvisation, you can get almost anything you would be consuming back home—music, movies, books, food, clothes. Almost everything. Where I live the foreigners talk a lot about missing good avocados. You get over it.