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Trista Signe Ainsworth

Aug 10, 2021

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An Exchange Student’s Saga

3 valuable lessons on coming back home

“There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin

When I was just sixteen, I embarked on an adventure of a lifetime. I went away for a year to Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico as an exchange student.

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