Friday I stand and look up at the Twin Towers looming over me in the night sky. I made it. I am here. This is the end of the world. The Chileans have an affectionate joke that, at the end of the seven days of creation, God looked down and realized he had a bit of desert, beach, mountains, and forest left over. So he decided to just string it all together, tack it on to the end of the world, and call it Chile. Referring to Chile as the end of the world isn't so bizarre considering how isolated it is. The Atacama desert lies in the north as an obstacle to PerĂº, Bolivia, and Argentina. Down the eastern edge of the country, the Andean mountains provide further separation from Argentina. On the west -
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