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Personal Essay - Overheard

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Published Friday, November 2, 2007
That space at the top of the door. I could hear everything that went on in that house in Surquillo, Lima, Peru through that gap between the top of the door to my room and the ceiling. I spent last summer teaching English in Peru on a work-exchange program, trapped in my tiny bedroom in my host family’s house by that opening. Time is certainly relative, but the same holds true for space — those two feet might as well have been leagues or fathoms.
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