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Elaina Marie Hirakida always felt constrained by fear--when she was offered an all-expenses-paid trip anywhere in the world upon graduating from college, she chose a 4-day trip to place that would demand the least adjustment--Montreal. Ten years later, she quit her secure job and embarked on a 3-month backpacking trip through South America in an attempt to create a radical change in her life--but she to discovered the true catalyst lay elsewhere. Available in the StoryCenter Collection on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cabesc_000086 ; and on the Sonoma County Library's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY5TEW0pPiw
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