I know this is late in coming, but as they say better late than never at all. I'm predating this entry to approximate a linear time line . . . blah blah blah . . . Before leaving for India this novice traveler would wake in the mornings, head all full of cobwebs, and sweating from the pseudo-nightmarish dreams that the anxiety of going away for so long and so far would induce. Most of these fearful revelries were visions of an India with zombies chasing after my leaking brain, but some took on a realistic hue in which my subconscious was processing my natural fear of the unknown. Just what I actually agonized over will be spared here, but suffice it to say I didn't have any tangible idea of how I would be received
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