Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience-buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello-become new all over again. (Anthony Doerr)

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience-buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello-become new all over again.

Anthony Doerr

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