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I’m experiencing this ankle sprain on every level: the writer in me is taking copious mental notes, the foreigner is overwhelmed at how rattled they are by a sprained ankle and the human is simply hurt.
The reaction of my host family, how they surrounded and rallied around me in…
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Before that day, that fateful afternoon, I could say wrist, liver, distinguished, decade, hallucinogen, family planning and chemotherapy in Spanish, but not ankle.
So when I called my host sister and said “Yo necesito ayudo me caí después del mercado, aquí abajo” the words that I needed were the only…
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Shortcut.
I’d never heard the word.
I think I looked it up one other time, but like imperfecto de subjunctivo, it didn’t stick. And the term I found wasn’t extravío, it was something else.
In the exact moment that I needed the word, Damaris said: “Aquí hay un extravío.” I immediately noted it…
All you have to do to sell all of your things and move across the world is to do it.