When I was twenty-one I went to Europe for the first time by myself.1 Even though I’d traveled to Mexico numerous times and Russia during my sophomore year of high school, these trips were with a youth group and therefore I was never in charge of how I spent my days or where I went. So, this trip to Europe as a celebration of college graduation was…
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