I met a young woman on the flight back tonight She had just visited DC for her first time It was her first cross-continental flight and the furthest she'd even been from home
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She couldn't have afforded the ticket on her own, but her friend was having a party in Virginia and flew her out
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I was on the plane because I needed an extra few thousand miles to hit gold status this year
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She works a register and also creates artisinal [products] sold through like LL Bean at what I assume is a 10x markup
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Overall she seemed really happy with existing which is more than I think a lot of people manage
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Which is impressive I guess her parents got hooked on oxycodone and just dropped off the face of the earth and left her and her two brothers to raise the other six kids Brothers are fishermen
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Overall she seemed really happy about living in a studio by the beach with her dog and her boyfriend.
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basically it was a very Steinbeckian flight
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Replying to @eigenrobot @granderojo
If the only Steinbeck I've read is the Pearl and it made me so angry I wanted to punch a wall is it worth trying his other stuff
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East of Eden is one of my favorite novels.
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