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Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Not all who wander are lost: 7 of 22

While I have seen many monuments and museums, what I took from my travels was not marked on any map. The pulse of a civilization cannot be found comparing castles against cathedrals but rather through witnessing the small delights and travails of its people. To sit outside with the Germans on the first sunny day of spring and witness the spontaneous cessation of work and toil, there one can find the heart of a culture! It is found while watching, rink-side on a frozen Czech evening, as a town's favorite sons play hockey under the stars; or at a Montana rodeo, chatting with a cowboy's worri...
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