It has been almost a week since I returned to the Midwest after 3 years living and working in London. It hasn't been long, but already it seems like ages ago I was wandering around Covent Garden, Shoreditch, Holborn, the West End, frantically squeezing all my worldly possesions into impossibly small suitcases. The process of sifting thru your entire contemporary life, deciding what stays and what goes, really does your head in. You flash back to all the other times you've done it before; do you keep the shirt you bought in Morocco all those years ago that you've never worn, but which is a beautifully crafted reminder of those 3 days in Tangiers so many years ago...? Nope, that one went to Oxfam. You've got to be a bit brutal in the end. Here I
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