Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. F…

John Green
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Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person. ✨ John Green (2010). Paper Towns, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing
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