From ages 3-10, I kept a tiny pink suitcase1 perpetually packed in my bedroom so that I was prepared to go anywhere at any given moment. As I got older, the container for preparedness changed, but the practice did not. If there’s two things you should know about me, it's that I’m always up for anything2, and I have an irrational fear of following in the c…
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