To Africa With Family, to Meet Friends [New York Times: Travel]
This story evokes the difficulty of recapturing the past and sustaining connections to people we knew in other parts of our lives. At the same time, it suggests how how rewarding the attempt to recapture those connections can be, particularly if one is not simply trying to relive the past, but views the attempt as a new experience in its own right. In the end, what was important was not the fact that the author could speak Wolof only in broken sentences and could recall only some names in the Senegelese village where he had lived, but that he tried.
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