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I was looking for home and for so long. I traveled to countries I've never heard of before in search of a place I could call my home. I was always told that someday I'll be able to live in a city, settled, and create my own home. I looked for that city in all the countries I could see. My Google timeline says I have been to 24 countries, 257 cities, and 1315 places. If you ask me, I would say Google Maps didn't exist when I didn't have a phone. And even then, I was looking for home. If you ask me, I can't tell you which city was for me to stay. I have spent years wondering if I could ever be able to find my place. If I were to create a home where would that be? Eventually I stuck to the phrase - the world is my oyster. And maybe someday I would travel the entire world. This suited my narrative of being an explorer, belonging to the entire world than to one place. When I was locked down in one, I finally began to wonder what was I really running from? I made my house...