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Nobody warned me about the loneliness
Everybody prepares you for the paperwork and the weather. Nobody sits you down and says you will not hear your own language in a shop for three months. -
Nobody warned me about the loneliness
This is the part that gets people. The admin is hard but it ends. The quiet does not end on a schedule. -
Nobody warned me about the loneliness
Two years in and I still call home at odd hours just to hear background noise. -
Nobody warned me about the loneliness
What surprised me was how expensive it is to be homesick. Every flight back is somebody salary. -
Nobody warned me about the loneliness
And the food. Nothing tastes like it does at home, no matter how much you pay. -
Nobody warned me about the loneliness
Three years. It gets better, but it never becomes the same thing. You just build a different life beside the one you left.
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