Around the time of my first departure, I experienced my life's happiest moments, and soon thereafter I encountered its saddest. A period of 5 days brought all the felicities of love, friendship, and voyage, along with the extreme heartbreak and melancholy that comes with the mourning of a fallen comrade and brother. Such concentrated emotion stacked on top of 45 hours of continuous travel is more stimulation than I'd ever ask for. No sooner than 8 hrs. after I had landed at Santiago's Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport had I made preparations to return home that evening. Returning
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