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The first time I visited Europe was the summer before my eighth grade year. It was the furthest I had traveled from home as well as my first time on an airplane. That trip changed everything. I felt the world open up to me, ​and I saw places that had only been available to me in the pages of history books and on the screen. I had foods that expanded my mind and taste bud​s and experienced art and architecture that was otherworldly. I fell fast and hard, and nearly three decad