As a small child, living in a small town near Seattle, I traveled by reading books and dreaming about the exotic places people lived. Places like China, Indonesia, France, Turkey, Greece, and so forth. These places sounded wonderful. I became a scientist and still longed to travel. One of my best friends in college was from Ankara, Turkey. Little did I know that one day I would have a job where I could roam the globe at will, meet so many people, have a tailor in Bangkok, have a favorite art store in Suzhou and friends scattered everywhere. What was fun was meeting real people and finding out that Indonesians thought that I grew up in the exotic place.......people are the same everywhere. Eventually one becomes a citizen of the world where no place feels truly foreign.

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