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15. Don’t drink coffee with a meal or they will think that you have been raised in a barn.

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New York intimidates me immensely. While putting the little guidebooks and maps I got upon my arrival in Paris into the “Donate” box, I can’t help but marvel at how compact it all is.

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I want to walk out and pretend not to hear the calls behind me of “Where are you going?” “When are you coming back?” I don’t know when I am coming back, and there is no one I want to explain it to.

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I am not less cultured because I don’t often get to leave my home state. I am not less interesting or intelligent or worthy because I fill my blog with places I would like to go but have not yet been able to.

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When you go out, you always end up getting too messed up due to a combination of accepting too many free drinks from losers and drinking by yourself in the corner while your friends meet nice, college-educated guys with jobs.