Back To Shore
Nov 1 · 4 min read

When I was ten, my mom began renting out rooms to foreign students. Over the next eleven years, while I lived at home, I became friends with students from countries all over the world — Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Venezuela, Germany, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, India, and many others. Each man widened my understanding and appreciation of humanity.
One summer, my mom decided that we (the remnant of my family) deserved a little break. A…

