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Ostrich Theory
by Pam Houston

I was twenty-two years old the first time I went to Europe with a backpack, a strict ten-dollar-a-day limit on spending money and a dog-eared copy of Let's Go Europe. I was there with my boyfriend — though in retrospect I can say that the relationship was so friendly and passionless that I'm tempted to call him my roommate — and we had become experts, due to our budget, at all the best things in Europe that are free.
 
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