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A Transformation, Told in Three Parts

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     This is my end-of-the-school-year reflection, even though I just finished the first week of a new school year. Because measuring time has essentially ceased to matter in the version of the Matrix that I live in, it makes more sense to do that reflection at this point in time. Oh, Corona. You have played out two extreme scenarios I've played through my mind over the years. First, how would I respond or react  if  international travel permanently shutdown, and I were geographically separated from my friends and family from "back home"? Second, how would I spend my time if I were to ever take a year off of work?      The answer to the first question is simple-- stay in place. I've been living in South America for six years, already. Although I've only been in Colombia for a year, I am home. Leaving here for the US would be more inconvenient between nearly all my possessions being in Bogota as well as the catastrophic chaos that's been exped...