Tag: last summer

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  Modern Love

  This was going to be the last summer I spent missing him. Long distance just isn’t sustainable, especially with a… Read more.

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  The Drums of Óbidos

  I had entered a time machine, not to medieval Portugal, but to my own youth in 20th century California. When… Read more.

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  In Translation

  I was only there for two months, split between two cities. That’s not long enough for me to do more… Read more.

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  See ALL the Things! Part 2

  Everything about this place is chanting, “too much is never enough.” I’m not mad though. The library may be what… Read more.

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  Language Lessons

  My ability to thrive, to immediately acclimate, in a non-English speaking environment was greatly exaggerated in my daydreams of travel.… Read more.

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  Gotta Dance

  I’ve never been good at small talk under the best of circumstances. I really didn’t have it in me that… Read more.

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  Bom Apetite

  If I had it all to do again I would have started a cheese diary on my first day in… Read more.

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  Portuguese Letters

  She was wooed. She fell in love. Things got hot and heavy. Then without explanation she was brutally ghosted. The… Read more.

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  Don’t Go Too Fast, but I Go Pretty Far

  There wasn’t any hour that the Metro, or Lisbon in general, felt unsafe to me as a woman traveling alone.… Read more.

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  Too Darn Hot

  This was not the weather that Lisbon was built for. Being in the housing without AC, knowing the rest of… Read more.