Around this time two years ago I had just arrived back in the states from a seven month trip abroad in Spain. Although it has been nearly two years, I feel as though it was just yesterday that I stepped through the airport threshold and onto the boarding ramp in Madrid to return home. I can still sense the overwhelming array of feelings that radiated through my entire body at the exact moment that I left the embarkment section and took my first step into the airplane portal. As I made my way down to the aircraft door, flashes of my stay quickly emerged and left in an instant only to intensify my emotions. Before I stepped aboard the plane I took one final breath of the hot spanish air and one final glimpse of Madrid
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