During the winter of 2009, three days before New Year’s eve, my family and I moved to Waterloo from Michigan where we spent 12 years.  One of the choir members I shared six years with gave us a bowl as a farewell gift. The bowl had a line of words printed which read “Home Is Where the Heart Is.”  That short sentence comforted me amazingly.

The first time I stepped on the land of the USA, New York and New Jersey area, for visiting my friend for a week, I felt like Alice in Wonderland.  ...


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