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Chapter 50

Chapter 50

Greetings from the motherland.

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Mar 25, 2024
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Our home for the week.

Dear Friends,

Today at 12:35 pm, I turned 50 and began my fifty-first rotation around the sun. I am writing from Korea, inside a 400-year-old hanok, a traditional stick-frame house with a clay-tiled roof. It's the perfect place to start our adventure in Seoul. 

I feel emotional being here in the motherland. I am thinking of my parent…

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