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We were very tired, we were very merry --
We had gone back and forth all night upon the ferry.
but the destination was always worth it.Jane.
Then I stepped foot outside the airport in Kabul and actually saw the city and started to meet people. All of the effort faded from my mind, as well as any residual fears. I felt as though I had come home.
Every once in a while everyone had to get down from the truck, as its wheels would spin in the muddy ruts of the dirt road. On one such occasion, as we stood in the desert sun, a nomad with a stick appeared.
This was 1973. My hair was blond and really bushy and stuck out all over like a big Jewish Afro. The nomad sported a big, bushy Afro Afro. We stood across the road from each other separated by the dirt track and lives spent in very different circumstances. We gawked and gawked. and slowly we both smiled at each other like a sideshow funny mirror. We never spoke a word, but the communication was certain.
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Some of my best memories have been of trips close to home