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(...why does my hand look like this. I'm sorry, y'all.) Hello everybody! Plans changed a tad, and this is really the second-to-last post before you get Concurrent Sam back, possibly with some travel stories! I wrote the majority of this reflection while I was in Lourdes, and added the first few paragraphs for context, and a few extra paragraphs for further thoughts. ;) When I was in Salzburg, right before I left for my research trip, I bought a bracelet at a local market. It's a simple thing, a double helix of yellow and green beads, with a seashell charm in the middle. When I got back to Sheffield for my few days of frantic packing and package-sending and breaking down crying while trying to fill out customs forms before I left on my trip, I had the priest at the Catholic centre there bless it for me. The origins of why I wanted the bracelet are twofold. One, when I left my home town, I asked my pastor for a travel blessing, and he gave me the Blessing for One Going On P

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